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Qasmuna
Posted by Radical Jew on February 26, 2018 with No Comments
in Breathing
I looked in the mirror one day and saw that I was beautiful and had reached the time of marriage
I see an orchard
Where the time has come
For harvesting,
But I do not see
A gardener reaching out a hand
Towards its fruits.
Youth goes, vanishing; I wait alone
For somebody I do not wish to name
‘Seeing Herself Beautiful and Nubile’, trans. by Christopher Middleton and Leticia Garza-Falcón, in Arabic Poems: A Bilingual Edition, ed. by Marlé Hammond (New York: Everyman, 2014), p. 131.