"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."
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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