Muhammad al-Maghut’s ‘Bleak Ink Sky’
“I am done / Smoke rises from my heart.”
Muhammad al-Maghut
Muhammad al-Maghut’s ‘Song for Bab Touma’
“There, in the hollow of slick mud / That reminds me of hunger and vagrant lips”
Muhammad al-Maghut’s ‘Stars and Rain’
“You who have shot me like a bullet outside the world.”
Lit & Found: Muhammad al-Maghut, tr. Elliott Colla
If only countries could be / exchanged for one another /
The way dancers are in a cabaret.