أحلام الغابة

لا أذكر بمن حلمت البارحةلكن أصابعي حتى الآن، تهتزكما لو أنها تزحف من كتف إلى عنقوباطن كفي يهمد على شريان نابضيغلي دميوأعلم أنني خلية لحوحة في نسيج العالم الباهتوالنار على أجنحتي، تبدل لون لهيبهابحسب مزاج الطقسلا أذكر من غرد في جذعي البارحةلكنني في الغابة وحيدةأيدٍ […]

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Jonny Ardor – NaPoWriMo

Day 18 – Growing UpQuarter of a centuryMany lessons learnedJust like in parenthoodSlow days quickly became yearsWho would’ve that we end up heretoday?Looking like this, feeling like that aboutourselves?What comes next, only God knowswhere we’re headingWorrying means I doubt the One whoknows my fateAshamed for […]

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Azim Mulla – NaPoWriMo

Day 21 – Everything and Nothing The last days.A dream close to awakening..The heart does not tryThe last days.The castle at the beginning of the day..Clouds are waiting for a signal to unfold.Dear faces.The first of winter… the last love…I thought to myself: maybe … […]

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Toby Oliver – NaPoWriMo

Day 23 – Grief Shelter Dear father, were you ever there for me?Dear girlfriend, you have never cared for me.Dear brothers, didn’t call, weren’t here.Dear demons, you’re the only ones who re left for me.Dear mother, on your cradle my hand.Dear darling, your love is […]

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Kalima

For many people you are but a stormsending wee grains in a gyreacross the seafar – out – traveling. Where bright sand serves as mirror to the seassince it curves gently along the dunes‘ creaseyou commence, still-tongue-tied wind,awakening softly, to lift the golden watersthat, dancing […]

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Everything could have been better

Someone in China could have been more carefulSomeone in Europe should have stayed at homeWhen the sniffles cameshouldn’t have gone skiingor partying. Fewer people would have gotten sickfewer would have diedfewer would have turned right-wingor we wouldn’t have noticed as muchWe would have fewer depressed […]

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أصوات العالم الخارجي تدور في رأسي

متى سوف أتعلّم ألّا أخطط إلى الأشياء بمفردي؟ ألّا أتناسى أن هنالك أشخاص آخرون يريدون ويفعلون أشياء أخرى أيضاً. إن كلّ الأحداث التي تدور في عقلي أحكمها بمفردي، ولذلك فهي ممتعة جداً، فهي تجري بالضبط كما أريد لها. ليس لدي الجلد على النهوض من سريري، […]

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Apricot Jelly

It happensthat I’m tastingwords trilinguallyrheumy and saltywarm as tearsin a loud afarmouths slurpingfruit and teawith stuffed belliesdo we stay more healthy do the sorrows stay distant I think I’m wondering how can I teach youthis long wordadequatelyit cannot besung nor dancedmy mother sayspermit of residencemy […]

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