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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…
Uncle Roy
Me and my little brothers always called him Uncle Roy only he wasn’t our uncle,…
On Sleeplessness and Pre-Dawn Ecstasies
In the liminal hours,when the stars have dulled or disappeared,the sky with its arms of milky whitereaches for…
One in the Same
the cloud bank stacked until infinity:heavenabove which the sun still shonehigh and bright and yellowred blue green and…
a harvest since passed
we walkedthe cotton fields of the deltathe nile glistened like a mirrorwe will never be under cotton sheetsin…
Bloody Rozana
for Amal Kaawash ‘Everyone is with their beloved and my beloved has gone. Oh lord, may the breeze…