A poem from the diwan "Qurban" ("Offering"), now in press, by Thurayya Malhas, author of "The Wandering Anthem."
Green Blood
Would that I had been born of you,
O tree
Would that I had drawn
from you
blood
that is green
Would that I had not been born
of a human,
red!
Take me, O tree
that my blood might have stayed
free,
pure,
green
A Vagrant
Rage, O my wounds
tear my bonds
sever the limbs
from me
and scatter the fragments
away from me
and braid the sorrows
Where is my homeland, O time?
Where is my nation, O ages?
