Walid Khazendar

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Walid Khazendar is a Palestinian poet born in Gaza in 1950. In October 1997 he was awarded the Palestine Prize for Poetry for "his achievements and aesthetic originality in the prose poem". In 1998-1999, he was Arab Writer in Residence at the NESP, Oxford University. He has published three collections of poetry.)

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Distant Light

Harsh and cold
autumn holds to it our naked trees:
If only you would free, at least, the sparrows
from the tips of your fingers
and release a smile, a small smile
from the imprisoned cry I see.
Sing! Can we sing
as if we were light, hand in hand
sheltered in shade, under a strong sun?
Will you remain, this way
stoking the fire, more beautiful than necessary, and quiet?
Darkness intensifies
and the distant light is our only consolation -
that one, which from the beginning
has, little by little, been flickering
and is now about to go out.
Come to me. Closer and closer.
I don't want to know my hand from yours.
And let's beware of sleep, lest the snow smother us.

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