#khaled mattawa

weltenwellen:

Adonis, tr. by Khaled Mattawa, Selected Poems

[image: from darkness to darkness to darkness
I breathe, touch my body, search for myself
and for you, and for him, and for the others end ID]

weltenwellen:

Adonis, tr. by Khaled Mattawa, Selected Poems

[text ID: Memory has a curtain that smothers me end ID]

weltenwellen:

Adonis, tr. by Khaled Mattawa, Selected Poems

[text ID: Under skin, your true self
and in my arteries a streak of madness
I roll between the I of ember and the I of ice. end ID]

weltenwellen:

Adonis, tr. by Khaled Mattawa, Selected Poems

[text ID: You are tidal waves inside my sense; there is no escape from you. end ID]

weltenwellen:

Adonis, tr. by Khaled Mattawa, Selected Poems

[text ID: Darkness here is like a wound
that even as it heals continues bleeding— end ID]

i don’t know who i am

hieu minh nguyen this way to the sugar (via@luthienne) \ via@zuvson\ natalie diaz postcolonial love poem: “postcolonial love poem” (via@beingharsh) \ salman toor the star (2019) \ elena ferrante the story of a new name \ adonis selected poems (tr. khaled mattawa)

kofi

forever is a lie

pjirawat \ sue zhao \ trois couleurs: bleu [“three colours: blue”]dir. krzysztif kieślowski (1993)via@ouugg \ ourbrokenbeatinghearts \ james lipnickasa place that could have been (2021) \ adonis selected poems (tr. khaled mattawa)via@weltenwellen \ salvador dali the persistence of memory (1931) \ samuel menashe samuel menashe: new and selected poems: “forever and a day” \@catilinas

kofi

It’s as if you see things and you do not see them. As if you are seeking what you do not see in what you see.

-Adnois tr. By Khaled Mattawa, Selected Poems

weltenwellen:

Adonis, tr. by Khaled Mattawa, Selected Poems