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Zakaria Mohammed

Zakaria Mohammed is a Palestinian poet, journalist, editor, and researcher specializing in the history of the pre-Islamic Arabian peninsula. He is the author of nine collections of poetry, including The Crow’s Date (forthcoming). His work has been translated into English and Korean. He is from Nablus.

Untitled Poems III & IV

III. People are asses. I hang bells from their necks so they can sing to me while I recline on a rock. People are fools. I’ll hang them up in the wardrobe like winter clothes. May’s barley is about to ripen. Each stalk has lined up its seeds in orderly fashion so ...

Two Poems

I. I caught a glimpse of you as I ran. I had no time to stop and kiss your hand. The world was chasing me down like I was a thief and it was impossible for me to stop. If I had stopped I’d have been killed. But I caught a glimpse of you: your hand a stem of narcissus in a ...