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The difference between narcissus

and sunflower

is a point of view: the first

stares at his image in water

and says, there is no I but I

and the second looks

at the sun and says I am

what I worship.

And at night, difference shrinks

and interpretation widens.

This Issue

September 25, 2008

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Mahmoud Darwish

Mahmoud Darwish, a widely admired Palestinian poet, was the author of more than thirty books of poetry and prose. He died in August, at age sixty-seven. (September 2008)

Fady Joudah

Fady Joudah’s fifth and most recent poetry collection is Tethered to Stars.
 (October 2021)

This Issue

September 25, 2008

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