Sunbird by Fady Joudah
Sunbird
Fady JoudahI flit
from gleaming river
to glistening sea,from all that we
to all that me,fresh east to salty west,
southern sweet,and northern free
there is a lakebetween us,
and aquifers
for cactusand basins
of anemone
from the river
to the sea,from womb
to breath and one
with onenessI be,
from the river
to the sea.
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This poem appeared in ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly, 2023.
ABOUT FADY JOUDAH
Fady Joudah is the author of […]. He has also published six collections of poems: The Earth in the Attic; Alight; Textu, a book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is based on cellphone character count; Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance; and Tethered to Stars. He has translated several collections of poetry from the Arabic and is the co-editor and co-founder of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. He was a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2007 and… (more)
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