May 27
'My Father Chased the Free Bird'
This poem appears in our latest issue, SYRIA: Fall of Eternity, ed. Ghada Alatrash and Fadi Azzam. My Father Chased the Free Bird So Long, Feathers Began to Grow on Him By Marwan Ali Translated by Ghada Alatrash Spring 2022 The Hawk It is the free bird. I know it by the beat of its wings—by their straight stretch, how they unfurl to stir the saliva of the Kurdish hunters and their traps. They…