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Imprints of Time
Memory leaves imprints over the years, sometimes cackling, sometimes wailing, sometimes too full of serious. You live in…
Backwards & Persian Rug
Backwards Let history begin here: With the house standing tall from leveled ground. Before my parents are my…
Bab Touma & Others
Bab Touma Bab Touma: fragments of an old hymn catch in the night— the jasmine branches are dried…
Bumper Cars
For the first timein a long timeI hear my teenage daughter’slaughterand it send me pinwheelingback across the slick…
Bringing Light into the Darkness:
Paintings and Drawings by a Sudanese Master “No politics,” this was the artist’s only request when I asked…
Car Seats and Cleaning Lessons
One of the perks of working the day shift – besides not having…
Lilliputians
How can a completely sane person be Incompetent to stand trial? Not guilty by reason of…
Perpetual last words
— “Where should the trees sleep after the last breath of air?” — Mahmoud Darwish I By…
Another morning without you & The Eyes of Eternity
Another morning without you The night is cold and blank,sleepless eyes resist,torn open like a lover’s letter,after a…
Self-Portrait in Diaspora
What befalls language after I forsake it?War never ceases writing the poemwhile my presence means nothing andmy departure…