{"id":6629,"date":"2024-12-07T09:05:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T10:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=6629"},"modified":"2025-01-30T17:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T18:15:10","slug":"795-a-butterfly-crossing-the-battlefield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/795-a-butterfly-crossing-the-battlefield\/","title":{"rendered":"795 | A Butterfly Crossing the Battlefield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6630 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Reem-Sameer-Al-Bayyat-800x600-1-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Reem-Sameer-Al-Bayyat-800x600-1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Reem-Sameer-Al-Bayyat-800x600-1-200x250.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Reem-Sameer-Al-Bayyat-800x600-1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><em>Art: Reem Sameer Al-Bayyat \u2013 Saudi Arabia<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A Butterfly Crossing the Battlefield<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I treaded the ground and heard it break<br \/>\nI leaned on the pain, biting down on it<br \/>\nso my scream wouldn\u2019t scatter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The house became afraid,<br \/>\nif its paintings tilted on the walls,<br \/>\nand no one noticed except me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And just as the road is afraid<br \/>\nwhen the patience of its stones runs out,<br \/>\nthe locks are afraid too, so they rust.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Like them, the garden statue was afraid<br \/>\nand disappeared into the night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And like them, I fear the harvest<br \/>\nif it\u2019s not from the planting of my hands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ahmed Al-Mulla &#8211; Saudi Arabia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>From (<\/em><em>What an enormous day<\/em><em>) \u2013 Rewayat Publishing &#8211; 2024<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Translated from Arabic: Adel Khozam &#8211; UAE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art: Reem Sameer Al-Bayyat \u2013 Saudi Arabia A Butterfly Crossing the Battlefield \u00a0 I treaded the ground and heard it break I leaned on the pain, biting down on it so my scream wouldn\u2019t scatter. The house became afraid, if its paintings tilted on the walls, and no one noticed except me. And just as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6705,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6629\/revisions\/6705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}