No one will know you tomorrow: selected poems, 2014-2024

Translator's Introduction FROM A CHAIR ON THE WALLS OF ACRE. The Waves of Acre What More Could I Want? Tal al-Samak In Nature's Cell Citizens of Dust Embrace A Mere Mortal Villagers Reflecting on Joy A Verse by Hafez Ibrahim on the Shore of Haifa Words for Wadi Salib Not This Cup Tormented by Joy Days of Hell Waiting Balad al-Shaykh A Riding Song with Badawi al-Jabal You Said The Hell of My People In the Beginning In Abandonment In Oblivion Fate Hardly Breathe Quietly Returning I Never Knew A Notebook An Ottoman Tune Near the Shrine of Saint Naum The Piano Player's Strokes Lost Obrigado In Praise of Experience A Sun Outside of Tragedy Light cannot be held A sentence in the swelter of contemplation Mountains crumble in my head I want these words to take me back thirty years The paper kite The Poem of Returning Home Life Review at Thirty-Seven As for My Singing FROM WITH EVERY STORM THAT COMES: A SEASON IN LONDON. A Dinner Invitation While You're Waiting at the End On the Way to Tipaza Recalling a Tryst in a Park You Think of a House With Every Storm That Comes A Wave of People Just Like Them Mercilessly I Had a Word Blink of an Eye To That Room Home Dissatisfied The Last Day In Despair A Distant Country We Never Stop FROM DISCOURSES FROM YOU ARE NOT A POET IN GRANADA. Rise, Granada You Are Not a Poet in Granada I Write the Land A New Notebook You Say That I Hunt the Breeze As a Vagabond Reading Uyoun Al-Akhbar in the Language Academy's Library In the Café In the Lie The Water Doesn't Remember I Know This Sea Lightning Writes Poetry In Rabat's Night I Won't Go Back An Afternoon in Albaicín An Algerian Nuba From One Country to Another Early Riser A Morning Note for the Paradise of Carmel I Heard Him Sing In the Colony I Don't Claim The Country Contrabass A Brief Commentary on "Literary Success" The Interrogation I Bear Only Smoke I Remember Umar As If Talking to Myself Citizens of the Tristes Tropiques Out of the Depths Forever Roaming A Conversation with Faris Baroud's Mother in the Al-Shati Camp Take Me, Drag Me Away Land The Shelling Ended

FROM EXHAUSTED ON THE CROSS. Mount Carmel

In Shatila

Elegy for a Sleeping Child

Because of a Woman

A Short Story About the Closing of the Sea

Exhausted on the Cross

Enough

All of It

My Defeated Banner

"A BREEZE FROM ÜS̈KUDAR" AND OTHER POEMS. Boy

Witnessing Abandonment

While Speaking About an Earthquake in Istanbul

Abandonment and a Home

Nurtured by the Hand of God

Late

Like Everyone Else

The Day Leaves You

In Response to a Poet Who Dreams of Glory

A Breeze from Üsküdar

Sousan's Mirror

Tarjī'-Band

Sleep

FROM WEARY OF WALKING IN THE BARZAKH. I Often Dream

At a Poetry Festival

Buildings

I Saw Trees

A Visitor from Hell

A Fleeting Slaughter

This Darkness

The New Year

In Captivity

No One

The Thieves

Take This Waltz

Hills of Thorns

A City Quartet

Someone There

I've Often Told You

Breaking Dishes

A Variation on a Verse by Al-Ma'arri

After You've Worked Like a Slave

From the Void

Sanāsil

The River

I Said I'd Run

The Last Mask

For the Sake of Some New Terror

I've Tried So Many Times

Psalm

Little Malta

A Hand on a Desk

Two Quills

A Trace in the Sand

A Song for Hell

Rooms

A Special Thanks

A Portrait of Badia Masabni in Chtoura

The Face of a Friend

A Younger Boy

If You Only Knew

A Forgotten Poem About Friendship

A Long Scar

A Single Sentence

Endless