Fareed Ghanem
Just
now we've concluded the conquest of Constantinople. It took us fifty three
seconds, the time between two cigarettes and two hallucinations. Then, we came
back.
The
city inflates at night. Noisy lamps،
stained by excrement of last summer's
beetles, sweep the shadows out of the roads. Piazzas become overcrowded by
humans, screens by words.
White birds scream in the illuminated evening. Night
mimics day and deprives sparrows of sleep.
I withdraw to the trunk of an indifferent tree, climb
through its phloem up to a leaf just about to fall, so I might have a break out
of the exhausted horses, and write down whatever I wish.
* Fareed
Ghanem (b.1958)
Fareed Kassim Ganem, literary name Fareed Ghanem , poet
and writer. He was born in 1958, 0n Magar village near Galille sea
(Palestine). He studied English literature, psychology and law at the Hebrew
university (Al-Quds/Jerusalem). Since 1991 he works as a lawyer, except for 5
years during which he the mayor of his village. F. Ghanem writes literary
texts, including prose poetry, and has published 3 poetry collections already
during the last 2 years.
