: : Diaspora // M Serafimova + R Hill

I had treetops in my domain.
When they swayed,
I remembered my place in the world.

// M Serafimova

: : Diaspora

// R Hill

I want you to say the word diaspora
Yeah, say it out loud.

diaspora

Now, emphasize the third syllable.

diaSPORa

Say it like that.
How does it feel?

diaspora
the dispersed ones

diaspora
the scattered ones

diaspora
scattered like seeds

The wind blows over us
and we are gone
and our place remembers us
No More.

And on that day there arose a great persecution against us
we were hunted like animals
and fled
were scattered

but we were not animals.

Dinos Christianopoulos knows:

ἤμασταν
emastan
we were

σπόρος
sporos
seeds.

On the water, a mysterious light.
A rubber boat, torn, on the shore.
Young children walk on the sea.

// M Serafimova