for Omari from Afghanistan You shouldn’t have done it, Janna. Happiness is a simple thing, you said. Happiness is a cool shadow and you looking at me. But we don’t have cool shadows in Trun. In summer there is no grass. The dust is knee-deep, and it is so hot your...
Sahel Flower | Jean Guerly Petion Wounded Land by Sylvie Kandé https://consequenceforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/WoundedLand.mp3 Let me prayWith all my strengthWith all the strength of my heart and of my bloodFor this Sahelian land Six million Nomads marching...
Ida Faubert —Translated from the French by Danielle Legros Georges O marvelous artist, O creator of dreams,To my soul your solitary soul spoke,And I followed you, a sweet and sad exile,In the far-flung lands where you went restlessly. I knew the spahi who lay heaving...
Like you, my horror is carved by the morningblood. I have no time to unroll dreams. The clock ticks,unveiling the old city structures, the guillotine of womanhood. Oh Shahrazad, the morning knows how to bite us—the radio brings another memory from a song full of...
admiral – when we came ashore the day beforethe prostitutes – learning we had returned from the wargreeted us as if we had risen from the deada 16-year-old liked me – I bought her pearlsa fish out of waterI think about it – those were the days in this hole that they...
Infiltration by Asmaa Samir Editor’s Introduction: Written by Elham Al-Zubaidi—and translated by Amir Al-Azraki and Sharon Findlay—“Camp Seagulls” makes a necessary contribution to Arab women’s literature in translation through highlighting lived experiences of Iraqi...
Debora Vogel Editor’s Note: To celebrate the launch this month of Anastasiya Lyubas’s Blooming Spaces: The Collected Poetry, Prose, Critical Writing, and Letters of Debora Vogel, Consequence Forum commissioned new translations of Vogel’s writing...
“How did you escape? You just, like strolled out of there?” “No, I didn’t. It was the company that strolled out.” “And you didn’t go with them.” “I didn’t go with them, no.” “Didn’t they look for you?” “I didn’t exactly make enquiries about that. I didn’t go...
