“Beauty takes me to the beautiful
And I love your love
freed from itself and its signs”
—Mahmoud Darwish, Mural, transl by Berger & Hammami
It doesn’t take reading much poetry for lines to start floating back to you, casting their eerie, gorgeous glow on a deceivingly mundane moment. Before I’d had a traceable thought about two strangers parting near an exi…
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