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Selected
Poems
continued from Banipal 42
Translated by Fadhil al-Azzawi
from the poet’s collection Laisat al-Ardh li ( The Earth is not mine)
CAGES 2
I won’t destroy these cages
I won’t come out of my cocoon
but I’ll destroy the language in my chest
to love you more.
NIGHT
The morning I slept through
was nothing but a night
you call morning.
READING
Don’t say anything –
I’ve read you with my heart
before you arrived.
SLEEP EARLY
Sleep early,
don’t burden the evening
Sleep early
beside a drooping flower
beside burbling waters
Sleep early
and wake up with the birds
to continue your singing.