Searching for the Lost Man by Ali Abd al-Gayoum, translated by Bakhit Bakhit and Aron Aji


 
 
 
 
a certain day
a certain woman was out
looking for a certain man
she chided the river:
          you hide him from me

all the world’s rivers laughed:
          woman
          go back to the wellspring
          where we saw him last
          and deserted him