{"id":1934,"date":"2016-01-14T13:32:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T11:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=1934"},"modified":"2016-02-13T13:33:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T11:33:24","slug":"poem-of-the-week-416-ashraf-fayadh-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/poem-of-the-week-416-ashraf-fayadh-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem of the Week 416, Ashraf Fayadh, Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What\u2019s your idea about my days that I usually spend without you?<\/span>
\nabout my words that used rapidly evaporate<\/span>
\nand about my heavy pain<\/span>
\nabout the knots that have sedimented inside my thorax <\/span>
\nlike dried up algae.<\/span>
\nI forgot to tell you\u2026that in the practical sense of the word<\/span>
\nI\u2019ve grown used to your absence<\/span>
\nand that my wishes have lost their way to your desires<\/span>
\nand my memory has begun to corrode!<\/span>
\nAnd that I still chase light, not because I want to see; the dark always frightens<\/span>
\neven when we are used to it!<\/span><\/p>\n

ASHRAF FAYADH<\/span>, PALESTINA<\/span>
\nTranslation Fady Joudah
\n<\/span>Painting: detail, work by Akbar Behkalam, Iran 1944-<\/span><\/em>
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\nPoem publihsed by: \u201cInstructions Within\u201d, Beirut, Al-Farabi, 2008<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nAshraf Fayadh is a 35-year-old artist and poet of Palestinian origin who lives in Saudi Arabia. He has been active in the art scene in Saudi Arabia and even exhibited at the Biennale of Venice. He has been sentenced to death for apostasy last November.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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