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

TAREE

-1-

Abla loved to wipe the night out in you

To spread my arms

To take Canopus her mirror

Which gathered in my eye

She thought your wave is the horse

And my chest is the saddle and the cap

She flew by us to the other side

And nearly drowned in me

-2-

She loves to walk on the beach

And tells the sand a story about a village

The duck adores

Sprinkling like a star

About Taree

Where boons landed as harvest

Between Abla and Taree

My heart landed

And picking became harder

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