poetry · Issue No. 5, May 1957 · p. 16

Village Dimensions

Layla Abu Dahir

أبعاد قروية · ليلى ابو ضاهر

The breaths of the rocks are still white, but today they are small, broken breaths. When, I wonder, will their breaths grow long, rising and falling like a woman in love??...

A spirit of waiting envelops everything around me; even the child who passed by my side was waiting for some movement from me, and when I smiled at him he hurried to embrace me.

As for me — what was I waiting for, I wonder?? Was I waiting for a love??...

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