A love song to Australia is one of Charbel Baini's books translated by Paul Abdul Ahad

NANA

 -1-

She ran carrying her provisions

Her eyes racing her legs

Afraid to fail her appointed dates

And be reproached by a boss

She stopped

Her sighing didn't stop

She fell down

Her arms didn't help

She poured her wine out of her eyes

Till her eyes' urn was emptied

-2-

New in her job

And the train doesn't await her

Whatever happens

She arrived to a city

Its people are in their city visitors

Sydney

The person works hard

To collect big concerns

She loved it

But her belief in her alienation

Is a dust squall

It seems like her field denied her

She grew on fire volcanoes

And the morsel on her tongue

Was the left over of young children

This mum who they called Nana

And still didn't know her address

Her laughter willed in spring

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