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

My Thirsty Soil


Strange girl...

And my garden knows you,

And my thirsty soil.

Talk to me about yourself,

Tell me trivial things

Like the idle people who conspire

With laziness and lethargy.

Say that you are my trousers

My socks...

Say that you are me... 

And that's enough. 

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