Images from the War

Doha Kahlout and Yasmine Seale

Doha Kahlout’s poem Images from the War, translated by Yasmine Seale, was recently featured in the Yale Review.

“With half a memory and ruined images, I turn over the past, repeating names that have no sound. Anxiety echoes back. The streets revolve, and the houses in my mind revolve, empty except for fear. I leave behind the years of experience, the tears and laughter, the farewells and encounters, and I run. Survival is a lost horizon, hope a device for the needy.”