from Love Under House Arrest
By Nizar Qabbani
I ask your leave to go
for the blood I used to think would never turn to water
has turned to water
and the sky whose blue crystal I used to think
could not break...has broken
....and the words
I used to cover you with when you slept
have fled like frightened birds
and left you naked.
Translated by Lena Jayyusi and W.S. Merwin ~ Book
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