Michael's Wingman and the Beloved

Michael's Wingman and the Beloved

Friday, July 25, 2014

When She Wasn't Present

"When she wasn’t
present as body she was the soul’s image
in everything. Drawing me closer
to the orbits of planets. Distancing me from life
on earth."

—Mahmoud Darwish, from “A Mask … For Majnoon Laila” (tr. by Fady Joudah), in The Butterfly’s Burden. Copper Canyon Press, 2006

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