Poetry Festival in Baghdad Feb 2024: Susanne Ayoub reads her poem “The Thousand and One Cities”(1001 Stadt) and Rima Al-Juburi the Arabic translation
The Thousand and One Cities
My Baghdad is a song
the bright silver sound of leaves
on a tall slender tree before the house.
Songs of cicadas. Frogs by the Tigris
The nightingale
Al Athl was the tree’s name
The Thousand and One Cities – first published in “Von der erfüllten, von der enttäuschten, von der vergangenen Liebe” – On Fulfilled, Unrequited, and Faded Love – Edition Milo 2006
Translator Geoffrey Howes
The poem translated into Arabic. Painting and translation by Rima Al-JuburiRima’s Translation
