Adonis, from "A Piece of Bahlul’s Sun", Selected Poems (trans. Khaled Mattawa)
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—Adonis, “A Piece of Bahlul’s Sun.” (tr. Khaled Mattawa)
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Adonis, from Selected Poems; “A Piece of Bahlul’s Sun” (tr. Khaled Mattawa)
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Adonis, “A Piece of Bahlul’s Sun”, Selected Poems (trans. Khaled Mattawa)
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Adonis, ‘A Piece of Bahlul's Sun’, Selected Poems (tr. Khaled Mattawa)
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They preyed on each other and one of them ate the other.
He has no words for what is revealed to him
Adonis, from Singular in a Plural Form; A Piece of Bahlul’s Sun. Trans. Khaled Mattawa.
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