Migration — Web Exclusive

By H. E. Sayeh
Translated by Fayre Makeig

A sketch the rain strikes
in dirt, one uncertain runnel
depicting the dark story of a cloud—

a vagrant cloud, driven over mountain and plain
until one day, in whatever stream it finds itself,
it is returned to the sea.

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Excerpted from the anthology of world literature Some Kind of Beautiful Signal.