From Times Online

October 31, 2003

The Drowned Ship

Mourid Barghouti, Translated from the Arabic by Radwa Ashour

The Drowned Ship

The shipwreck said:

Here at the bottom

Adventurers look for treasure,

The police for the bodies of the dead,

Insurance companies for pretexts;

But I found no one

Looking for the gasps of mariners and passengers,

Their last apprehensions

When the tempest, like a busy seamstress,

Stayed up late

To sew black clothes

And pile white snow

On the empty half

Of a widow's bed.

MOURID BARGHOUTI (Translated from the Arabic by Radwa Ashour)

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