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Ali Ahmad Said Esber
1930 / Syria
The Two Corpses
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I buried in your subservient entrails,
in the head, the hands and eyes,
a minaret;
I buried two corpses,
the Earth and the sky.
O, tribe,
O, womb of wasps,
and mill of the wind.
Songs of Mihyar the Damamscene
Translated by: Kamal Abu-Deeb
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