You name yourself, then scream in the face of those returning from the opera. They slap your silence and dig through descriptions of your blood for fragments of a lame shadow, as if you are the stranger in the stillness. The war cloaks itself, then it pours, and the light remains steadfast, shattering the burden of faces with its solitude.

• Author: Iman Abu Assi
• Publisher: Alan Publishers and Distributors
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Number of Pages: 94