Rural Poems is one of Charbel Baini's books translated from Arabic into English

Divorced Woman


I saw her,

before dawn,

running towards the train station, breathless and frightened.

I stopped her,

And asked her;

- What is your name?

She replied: 

- Since I left my country, 

My name has abandoned me.

In every factory I entered,

They gave me a new name,

And with the passing days...

I was left with only one name,

A name I am as ashamed of as I am of myself:

Divorced Woman!"

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