Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? by Mahmoud Darwish

Author:Mahmoud Darwish [Mahmoud Darwish]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781780943411
Publisher: Hesperus Press
Published: 2014-11-29T16:00:00+00:00

IV

Around you there was no time for sentimental talk.

You kneaded all the noontide with basil. You baked

The cockscomb for the sumac. I know what ruins your heart, pierced

By the peacock, since you were driven a second time from Paradise.

Our whole world has changed, our voices have changed. Even

Our greeting to each other dropped off like a button on sand,

Making no sound. Say: Good morning!

Say anything to me so that life may be kind to me.

V

She is Hagar’s sister. Her maternal sister. She weeps

With the reed pipes the dead who have not died. There are no graves around

Her tent to show how the sky opened up, and she does not

See the desert behind my fingers: so as to see her garden

on the face of the mirage, old time hurries her on

To an inevitable futility: her father flew like

A Circassian on the marriage steed. But her mother

Prepared, without tears, for her husband’s wife,

Her henna, and checked out her anklets…

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