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Untitled Poems III & IV
August 16, 2022
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
August 02, 2022
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 ...

Exam
July 05, 2022
My mother’s lessons are too late.After all we’ve lived through—the years she countsin precise concurrence with the Nakbaand the ones I count while I bite my tongue—she insists on lecturing me, word by word, all at once.She shows no consideration for my chronic ...

Memory
June 21, 2022
All is disordered in my usurped Bedouin memory.The young man who was electrocuted as he watered his fieldwas a potential groom for several little girls.His pores were potential lanterns in the dark after that charge of light.In all possibilities, memory betrays me.Was he a ...

Mahmoud
May 31, 2022
Mahmoud could have been our son.I’d have objected to the nameand, for family reasons, you’d have insisted on it.We could have bought him a crib with a blue quiltand hung spinning musical animalsto coax him to sleep,could have stayed up all night for his first ...