Meditation

For the first six years of my life, nobody called me by my name.

I feel like I’m stuck inside a temple aflame, daydreaming of plucking a fig from a blaze. I want to ask you if you think we’re too young for this ghorba, but I don’t.

I tell you a little deaf girl said she can’t hear the bombs but what she imagines in her mind is usually reality. You tell us about a song you don’t sing anymore

In Arabic, “wholeness” translates in a word that lifts when you say it rather than falling in your chest like in English.

I had to dive fully in and swim around the poems as in a vast coral sea

If from Every Tongue It Drips (2021) explores distance and proximity, identity and otherness, through the daily interactions between two queer women.

I felt more keenly aware of being a visitor and a guest here on this land — something I had always known instinctively.

Tell me how I can do this and still live.

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