Everything Here... in the voice of Tara Fares
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Everything Here... in the voice of Tara Fares

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 13, 20261 min
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Hello, my name is Jumana Al-Talal and this is my poem, Everything Here, in the voice of Tara Faris.

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In the next life, death has the sense not to creep around me, breathe my air.

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Hello, my name is Jumana Al-Talal and this is my poem, Everything Here, in the voice of Tara Faris. Delirious, I am laid to rest in the clavicle of a bird whose remaining body is a ghost. In the next life, death has the sense not to creep around me, breathe my air. air. Bright, bright, this new world, and ugly. To have been taught nothing remains of my body,

0:34

and still my limbs, what to make of no one watching. No rush, nothing to return to, but a mildewed grief. Here, there is space, there is space, and nothing will fill it. Some days I dream no one is watching. I dream I am small standing beneath the rim of a graying sky my soup and body a willow leaf carried in the quivering wind. All I wanted was to be left alone

1:05

to drive a beautiful car to veer to the edge and quiver against a beloved's body instead. I am rosined into the earth, brittle as bone. Someone's look what happens when you look what happens. How many have died in my name and inherited death?

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