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I wait for you in the shell of night by the shore in the hum roaring from the depth of the sea in the holes in the sky’s cape in linden and acacia among pines and cedars in the underbelly of the waves, in salt

Adonis, from Psalm, trans. Khaled Mattawa (via nemophilies)

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I was wounded early, and early I learned that wounds made me.

—Adonis, from “Celebrating Childhood“ (translated by Khaled Mattawa)

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Morning of jasmine, earth-clot, bed of bone.

Khaled Mattawa, from ‘Revisiting Hekale’ (via soracities)

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I enter the throbbing darkness to learn how to become light.

Adonis, from ‘Celebrating Abu Tammam’, Selected Poems (trans. Khaled Mattawa)

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Morning of jasmine, earth-clot, bed of bone.

Khaled Mattawa, from ‘Revisiting Hekale’ (via soracities)

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