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"We have Passed Over There"

Translator: Husain Selmi

 

We have Passed Over There:

 

 They Call It Anxiety

(4)

When I boarded

The plane,

My lips

Have gone

Dry,

And when

I passed

My tongue over them,

Your own lips

Have already drawn near

Them

Erasing my anxiety.

 

(5)

I will be impeded

To be misunderstood

When I write about you,

And I will be impeded still to

Make out

What they are seeking

In my mouth’s preoccupation

With you. 

(1)

That’s what

I have lost sleep over,

While you are distant in nearness.

 

(2)

It’s splendid

That we have not said good bye,

And that tears have not sobbed.

It’s splendid

That heart kept

Repeating

The molding of his own seduction,

And that

Our lips

Are soaring into

A scudding cloud.

 

(3)

At the airport,

Faces

Are gazing at us both.

We should have

Carried

The odor of desire

In our palms.