باللغة الإنجليزية Saadia mufarreh Translated by Nay Hannawi The garden he has been persistently painting have no trees, or rivers of milk and honey running through. The spaces in the gardens he paints can only be pale blue as if they are mirrors lying on their backs looking at a …
أكمل القراءة »Loss
باللغة الإنجليزية Saadia mufarreh Translated by Nay Hannawi Only on the side roads I try to be. I stroke my hair, hidden by necessity. I sneak my right hand in my pocket, I walk like a swan, I swing my bag in the new air I sing my spontaneous tunes. …
أكمل القراءة »Distance
باللغة الإنجليزية Saadia mufarreh Translated by Nay Hannawi Between the room and the hall is a corridor with broken tiles. My mother complains how small it is. Only my sore body knows how long it really is.
أكمل القراءة »Refrigerator
باللغة الإنجليزية Saadia mufarreh Translated by Nay Hannawi I opened it, tidy were its contents. Bottles of preserved milk cartons of yoghurt bags of frozen meat yellow apples medicine and bread and …and … etc. In the refrigerator of my soul! The contents scatter and expire and no one opens …
أكمل القراءة »To Mahmoud Darwish
باللغة الإنجليزية Saadia mufarreh Translated by Nay Hannawi Where incidents walk the same road and the words ride together along the banks of first question, where there are many declared attempts at suicide by linguists and grammarians , and the children on the boring school chairs learn how to …
أكمل القراءة »To Fadwa Tuqan
باللغة الإنجليزية Saadia mufarreh Translated by Nay Hannawi Right in her something lives. It takes a carnival of wisdom as a ritual, it sits on a throne of femininity and questions called amazement . Its features sketch a full moon behind ashes of clouds and in the presence and in …
أكمل القراءة »You disappear…Then I saddle the horse of my suppositions
باللغة الإنجليزية Saadiah Mufarreh Translated by Iyad Eqtefan You disappear Then the details depart, Those that we don’t know how do they arrive assiduously And swiftly abscond They whimper like a flock of sand grouse When entrapped in the netts of farness, Then they annihilate my silence This suspicious stranger, …
أكمل القراءة »She carves her heart …He says, “ Follow me , Beautiful Deer”
باللغة الإنجليزية Saadiah MufRREH Translated by Nay Hannawi ( 1 ) It sometimes happens … She plans to give her day a blue memory. She sweet-talks her prettiest dresses to shed off yesterday’s smell. She peels her skin with the edge of desire And survive. ( 2 ) It sometimes …
أكمل القراءة »from My Dreams Often Humble Themselves
باللغة الإنجليزية SAADIAH MUFARREH Translated by Allison Blecker 1 I want nothing more than wings or my soul to cease yearning for flight. 2 I want to cry out with all my might without waiting for any question. 3 I want to free myself from everything that keeps my tears …
أكمل القراءة »Soon She Will Leave
باللغة الإنجليزية SAADIA MUFARREH translation by Hend Mubarek Aleidan with Patty Paine 1 Soon she will leave. She is busy choosing her finest dress. She applies her makeup precisely, and reviews missed calls on her cell. 2 She is making an ordinary lunch while writing her dead poetry. She sings …
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