A Map of Absence by Atef Alshaer

Author:Atef Alshaer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Saqi

Settlement

Here a tree blossomed

Here a sparrow wandered

Here a violin was lost to nostalgia

Here a star loved a little girl

Here a nightingale stole fruit!

Here a boy wrote a book of songs

for someone else in his neighbourhood who loved

Here there was a field of pears

Here a student memorised the lesson to the point of exhaustion

Here there was merry laughter

and the talk of sunset with swallows

before a tank rolled over

bullying its way towards the hilltop

To build for the army of invaders,

over my mother’s bosom, a settlement.

Translated by Atef Alshaer

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