in Ramallah the ancients play chess in the starry sky the endgame flickers a bird locked in a clock jumps...
Poetry
In Jerusalem, I mean within the old wall, I walk from one era to another without a memory guiding me....
My Husband and I My husband is a gardener Every morning he trims my leaves watering me counting my...
This lake is not water. It was a person to whom I spoke at length, then he dissolved. And I...
We did not rush crying We did not ask the city inhabitants about the reason We Only… Got busy arranging...
The Lovers - René Magritte About moments I waste thinking and missing and choosing the right words About nonexistent things...
One arm hangs limp and empty, the other bends under a load One foot has gone to sleep the other...
The Cave I have known how the minutes stretch their legs How they freeze, and change into ages I have...
A Minstrel was drumming outside a palace at midnight, announcing the meal that was normally taken at daybreak during Ramadan....
Etel Adnan wasn’t there. “It’s hard for her to travel these days,” Photi told me. Too bad, I thought. She...
