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Poetry

Father My Unborn Son

By Yahya Hassan
Translated from Danish by Kuku Agami & Al Agami
May 1, 2015
Published in New Palestinian Writing
Denmark Palestine

I spill twenty liters of darkness
and a childhood up against the wall
A Stone-Age hand a paperback Koran
Maybe I could have loved you
if I was your father and not your son

English

I spill twenty liters of darkness
and a childhood up against the wall
A Stone-Age hand a paperback Koran
Maybe I could have loved you
if I was your father and not your son

Yahya Hassan

Yahya Hassan (1995-2020) was a Danish-Palestinian poet.

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