poetry · Issue No. 2, February 1948 · p. 24

Eve

Youssef Ghoussoub

حَوَاء · يوسف غصوب

O her brimming mouth, O temptation
standing since the age of Eve—
the apple bequeathed her sweetness upon
sweetness, and beguilement, and seduction.
She did not leave Paradise in her nakedness:
no, she took, in secret, certain things.

(The Perfume Flask)

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