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August 16
By Zakaria Mohammed
Translated By Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
I sing of you, migrating heron.
I sing of your whiteness and your sauntering gait in fallow land.
And I sing of you, resident hoopoe.
I sing of your little crown as you gather seeds from a plowed field.
This is how I am, my song is confused,
it plants one foot in fallow land
and another in plowed fields.
Sometimes I recite the resident’s prayer,
other times the prayer of the traveler.
Translated from the Arabic
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