On This Earth There Is That Which

Against Barbarity, Poetry Can Resist Only By Confirming Its Attachment To Human Fragility Like A Blade Of Grass Growing On A Wall While Armies March By.

And You Became Like Coffee, In The Deliciousness, And The Bitterness, And The Addiction.

Life Defined Only As The Opposite Of Death Is Not Life.

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.

I Never Wanted Children, Maybe I'm Afraid Of Responsibility.