My Love, I Fear The Silence Of

... For Me It Is Essential, Essential For The Poet To Have A New Toast, New Songs.

Sometimes I Feel As If I Am Read Before I Write. When I Write A Poem About My Mother, Palestinians Think My Mother Is A Symbol For Palestine. But I Write As A Poet, And My Mother Is My Mother. She's Not A Symbol.

Without Hope We Are Lost.

I Want To Find A Language That Transforms Language Itself Into Steel For The Spirit--a Language To Use Against These Sparkling Insects, These Jets.

I Have Learned And Dismantled All The Words In Order To Draw From Them A Single Word: Home.