Wednesday Poetry: Salim al-Naffar's 'Drawing Class'

Argue with this: / The skies crush our land: / our song sings on.

This poem originally appeared in A Bird Is Not a Stone, and, as the publisher has gone out of business and the poet was killed under Israeli bombardment along with his family, appears here with permission from editors Sarah Irving and Henry Bell.

Drawing Class

Salim Al-Nafar

Translated by Danielle Linehhan Kiedaisch and Lorna MacBean.

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