The Set up
Ali Rashid
Translated by: Saleh Razzouk
and Scott Minar
Leave me O pain
The world is spinning around me like a naked ear of wheat
Like a field that cannot reach its vintages
While I am wavering with my alienation amulets at what remained of
The impossible
Wishing for a time to pose with my remorse in place.
...
Beware O suffrage of waxing her closed doors with
Forgetfulness,
Of burning this deposit of idleness in the ruins
Of her eyes,
Or of a goblin that grew in her pale silence,
This sticky silence is the desperate distance between the dream,
And songs mixed with halted breaths,
Between her thin hand, and the draped evening like damp loaves
Mixed with saffron.
Saleh Razzouk , ssistant prof. at The University of Aleppo (Syrai)
Scott Minar is a writer, literary critic, editor, and musician from USA
work of artist Ali Rashid
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