Tarteel to translator
TARTEEL((Transliteration of Arabic “ترتيل ,” a chanted hymn or ode)) TO TRANSLATOR for Alex Foreman Remember November, when Beirut was inflames and each by each I read the namesto match the bodies stacking high there,like sticks I used to pitch wide myskin here, to feel my city’s stingcross sea-wind, rememberhow you knew sharpsticks are good for reaching? Remember then how you would not staymy reaching hands from these namesthat cracked my city like my skin,or from my love for a Beirut Ican’t stay from or stay in,as you knew to hold meback would stayno fallout? Remember how you were no new wallagainst how
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