A Country Poem by Wadih Saadeh

A Country



It took its name
from water
and started to flow
The foam we saw
riding the waves
was its people
The grass over the dunes
their ribs
A country
whose men all
had departed, and so
the women were wed
to trees

Translated by Sargon Boulus

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Wadih Saadeh

Wadih Saadeh

لبنان
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