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

The Strange Jackal

 

The strangely shaped jackal

Abandoned the vineyard after the harvest.

It reminds me of a man who divorced his wife, 

The mother of his children,

Because of her dry skin!

Oh, if only this man knew

That the sparkling water of life

In the eyes of his children

Is enough to make her a nymph

And a crown upon his head! 

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