Fady Joudah is the author of The Earth in the Attic, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, Alight, and Textu, a collection of poems written on a cell phone. In addition he has translated the work of prominent Palestinian poets Mahmoud Darwish and Ghassan Zaqtan. Joudah lives with his family in Houston, where he is an emergency room physician.

Crow on Saccharine

by Fady Joudah

We boarded a ferry to a promised shore

Reached the shore and twirled our wrists


Spanish dancers or some folk from the East
Eager for foaming water rushing toward our feet
People on couch
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