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Poetry

A Shiver

By Saadi Youssef

Translated from Arabic by Khaled Mattawa

October 2, 2003

Published in Checkpoints: Literature from Iraq

Iraq

Hold me, comfort me
The stones are nothing but pain tonight
Hold me to your breast
so that I ramble:
The stars are gray as ash
and the road to them
is ablaze with light.

1993

Hold me, comfort me
The stones are nothing but pain tonight
Hold me to your breast
so that I ramble:
The stars are gray as ash
and the road to them
is ablaze with light.

1993