SAADIA MUFARRAH is a poet and critic, and works as arts editor of Al-Qabas daily newspaper in Kuwait. She graduated from Kuwait University in Arabic Language and Education in 1987, and has published four collections of poetry.)
Refrigerator
I opened it
its contents were tidy.
Bottles of preserved milk
cartons of yogurt
bags of frozen meat
yellow apples
medicine and bread
and . . . and . . . etc.
In the refrigerator of my soul
the contents scatter
and expire
and no one opens them.
Translated by: Nay Hannawi