Poems by Samira Al Bouzadi.
Translated from Arabic by Dr. Salwa Gouda
My lightness is heavy
I feed my beings with transparent bread at the end of the night
The eggs hatch in my imagination all at once
That’s why the poems flow like mysterious lust.
Hungry and blind
I monitor the cosmic door
I put all my secrets in my bag
And I wait for you
This is what I have trained to do all my life
Here I broke the dry loaf
And drank of the immortal poison
Here I folded the larger world into my words
Here God gave me the sad flame!
I have a voice that can be broken
And forgotten
Suitable as a chair for stressful days.
