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.

Schoolgirl

by Fady Joudah

The love rose in my heart has wilted

The love bug

The news on the transistor
A nice man with a ponytail says

It’s understandable
If you wanted to leave here for there

People on couch
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