ruby st.

ID: “The wound is the fall / That shakes with its name / With its bleeding name / Everything around us. / The houses leave their walls / And I am / Not I” End ID

— mahmoud darwish, i have behind the sky a sky, trans. fady joudah

a thing i made….

ID: “All I said about my life and death / Recurs in the silence / Of the stone under my head…. // The moon always wears / A stone helmet / To fight its own shadows.” End ID

— adonis (ali ahmad said), the desert (the diary of beirut under siege), trans. abdullah al-adhari

adonis (ali ahmad said), the desert (the diary of beirut under siege), trans. abdullah al-adhari

ID: “From the shadows of men, women… etc. / From the bombs stuffed with the blood of Muslims and infidels… etc. / From the flesh of iron that bleeds / and sweats pus… etc.” End ID

ID: “From the dark dark dark / I breathe, feel my body—search for you and him, / myself and others.” End ID

— mahmoud dariwsh, i have behind the sky a sky, trans. fady joudah

— mahmoud darwish, i have behind the sky a sky, trans. fady joudah