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A Moment of Silence

By Najwan Darwish
Translated By Kareem James Abu-Zeid
And what did the Armenians say?

An Umayyad monk
spins wheat and wool above us

Time is a scarecrow


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That’s what the Armenians said


Source: Poetry (April 2014)
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