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    The poem describes the speaker's longing for their lover to return to their bed of sand under the tree where they said goodbye. When their lover arrives, the speaker's veins pulse with joy and they embrace passionately. Their bed is a place of comfort formed from ancient sediments as soft as a rumor. Together there, their desire fills the night with voices like flocking birds or a deepening friendship. The speaker sees themselves and their lover as a late night conversation that nurtures their longing, and they look forward to teaching the dawn new things together, gathering wood from new trees as nature constantly renews itself, just as their love will last forever.

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    The poem describes the speaker's longing for their lover to return to their bed of sand under the tree where they said goodbye. When their lover arrives, the speaker's veins pulse with joy and they embrace passionately. Their bed is a place of comfort formed from ancient sediments as soft as a rumor. Together there, their desire fills the night with voices like flocking birds or a deepening friendship. The speaker sees themselves and their lover as a late night conversation that nurtures their longing, and they look forward to teaching the dawn new things together, gathering wood from new trees as nature constantly renews itself, just as their love will last forever.

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    Abdullah Al-Riyami: Our Old Bed

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    Sachin Ketkar
    The poem describes the speaker's longing for their lover to return to their bed of sand under the tree where they said goodbye. When their lover arrives, the speaker's veins pulse with joy and they embrace passionately. Their bed is a place of comfort formed from ancient sediments as soft as a rumor. Together there, their desire fills the night with voices like flocking birds or a deepening friendship. The speaker sees themselves and their lover as a late night conversation that nurtures their longing, and they look forward to teaching the dawn new things together, gathering wood from new trees as nature constantly renews itself, just as their love will last forever.

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    Abdullah Al-Riyami

    Our Old Bed


    I wait for you in a bright shadow
    lit by matches struck from the tree
    under whose branches we said goodbye
    When you arrive
    fuids purl along my veins
    the way clouds arise from the sea
    And I stumble between your thighs
    towards the cure
    for this unstaunchable wound
    Our bed is of sand
    formed from ancient sediments
    soft as a rumour
    Together on this silk
    desire flls our voices like focking birds
    like a new friendship flling the night
    You and I are a latenight conversation
    in a tavern by the sea
    at the fount of the hori!on
    "urtured by longing
    we come to this shore
    to teach the dawn new tricks
    And we go to the forest
    to gather wood from new trees
    #tone gives birth to stone
    and I will wait for you forever
    knowing that nothing can stop the earth
    rolling down the mountain of life
    Translated by #arah $aguire and %af! &heir with Anna
    $urison and "ariman Youssef
    ' The (oetry Translation )entre

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