The Two Corpses Poem by Ali Ahmad Said Esber

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

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Mahtab Bangalee 21 June 2018

O bizarre sight the rue of hue look I bury me and myself into me my body is my shrine......

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