Not enough to eulogize a bird

(Selections) for the poet Dakhil Al-Khalifa, chosen and introduced by the poet Saad Al-Yaseri. From the atmosphere of the texts: I walk and departure follows me / to the neighing of salt in your eyes / where a fawn sleeps there / and the dove relaxes in it. I long for the wounded honey / on your lips / where a daisy was crying / a passionate lover eager for my intercession / and I light you where the way takes me. I engraved the ember in you / I dated madness / and I came entirely / drowning in the primitiveness of the meaning / for a slenderness that whenever time leans to it, with longing, it tilts.