الوداع في مثلث صغير
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هدية رأس السنة: ثلاث قصائد من ديوان أحمد يماني الجديد
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في مأمن من الريح والتاريخ: شِعر روبرتو بولانيو ترجمة أحمد يماني
Gueorgui Pinkhassov, Tijuana, July 2012. Source: magnumphotos.com
بين الذباب
أيها الشعراء الطرواديون
لم يعد هناك شيء مما كان يمكن أن يكون لكم
موجودا
لا معابد ولا حدائق
ولا شعر
أنتم أحرار
أيها الشعراء الطرواديون الرائعون.
Robin Moger: Ahmad Yamani’s The Scream
Michael Donovan. Source: studiodonovan.com
My sister screamed in the night
Take me to my brother’s house
And there she screamed that same night
No no! Take me back to the house of my father
They took her back
And when she made to scream again
The night had passed
And the men had gone to work.
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Robin Moger Translates Ahmad Yamani
Tomorrow the village market day
By Youssef Rakha. Leukerbad, Switzerland
I will go to the spring
where you slip away to fill your jar
everyone at the market and me by the tree
we maintain twenty metres no more no less
and this before you catch on a stone or two
and before a foot slips and a jar slips
leaving me ahead
on our way to the spring again
by twenty metres and a slight smile.
Youssef Rakha Translates Ahmad Yamani
Iwata Nakayama, Woman from Shanghai, 1936. Source: theartstack.com
The Two Houses
I wake in the same room to find my hand splashing the lake that lurks under the bed, to find the thick wall of my old house with its dusty window where a main wall of this apartment should be. I opened the window and the evening was still there. And my father was in the kitchen, his hand on the light switch and his leg which is missing five centimetres looking longer than the other, I called to him and he did not reply, he only smiled and invited me with gestures of his hand to go on sleeping. ‘The universe is a handkerchief’, they say here. Over there we say ‘Small world’. At night I go to my parents’ house, through the opening I made behind my new house. I stay there an hour or two to check on the family’s medicine, on my parents’ sleep and their breakfast. At dawn I set up my vehicle and go back again.
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