Imen Benyoub

“In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.”
― Mark Strand, New Selected Poems

“Morning’s nowhere in sight
a night walks
through dark streets of my thoughts
with heavy legs
dragging with it like a rag doll all my regrets
could have
should have
would have
blink in the dark
like cheap neon lights
irking weary night birds outside

morning’s nowhere in sight
to wash away with its light
the carcasses a night left behind
of regrets scattered all over dark alleys of my mind”
― Silva Zanoyan Merjanian, Uncoil a Night

“Have I ever really loved anyone at all,
or was it a lightning flash
which made me the shadow of my former self?”
― Vladimir Holan

“لا تعشقي فلسطينياً فإنه قد يموت بأي لحظة , رصاص بلاده كثير وطائش جداً, والسجن لديه مثل زيارة قريب ...عادية جداً ومكررة .”
― يامن النوباني, ذاكرة اللوز