Overwhelming Beauty
 
Let disaster fall
The poet told us.
Let disaster fall and wait
For poems to drop in your palm
Like unexploded pomegranates.
 
She left something out:
Someone, somewhere will have to pay.
And I wager my imaginary farm,
They won’t be
American.

Hassan Abdulrazzak

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