Siwar Masannat
you may not know that we’re there but we are you
say i have never seen anything in man and
woman i haven’t seen in the male and female
pigeons as though a lion were no more than a house
mouse that roars rose she says as i see the shaking of the ben-oil
tree branch by the rain and the lover he says i am
better than you because i am above thus i am closer
to the sky and the lover he replies i am more humble
than you for i am closer to earth
This poem blends lines from a testimony in Bareed Mista3jil, al-Tifashi’s book Nuzhat al-Albab Fi Ma La Yowjad Fi Kitab (mentioned in Samar Habib’s Female Homosexuality in the Middle East), and Joan Roughgarden’s Evolution’s Rainbow.
