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| Drifting in sunlight, Please enlarge with a click. |
We drifted awhile
on the surface tension,
tapped into the essence
as the earth warmed
and our minds unfurled.
We had what we wanted awhile,
then lost it without knowing,
the way sunlight rises on the wall
as the room fills with shadow.
—after Saadi Youssef's Exhaustion as translated
from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa
