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Samih Al-Qasim

Al-Qasim was born on May 11, 1939 in Zarqa, Jordan and raised in al-Rama, a Palestinian town in the northern Galilee region of present-day Israel. His family was Druze, a minority religious sect that emerged from Islam.

I feel my limbs

by Samih Al-Qasim (1939–2014)

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 I feel my limbs, 
 but cannot find them. 
 I implore my sense of sight, 
 but see nothing beyond a neutral grey. 
 Suddenly, warm radiates through the sand 
 crowding my spirit. 
 I discover my hands and legs, 
 there they are, familiar limbs, 
 assembling themselves into a heap of sand! 

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