Self-Portrait with Woman on Subway by Hayan Charara
“Twenty years on, / I could’ve said something, / anything—” — Hayan Charara
Think of Others by Mahmoud Darwish
"As you liberate yourself in metaphor, think of others / (those who have lost the right to speak)." — Mahmoud Darwish
I Want to Write Something So Simply by Mary Oliver
"that it was all the time / words that you yourself, / out of your heart / had been saying." — Mary Oliver