Nizar Qabbani: Still

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Southern California coastal range in fog: photo by Wing-Chi Poon, 7 November 2007

still traveling further
still, after the tenth year, a spear
planted within

ما زلت

ما زلت يا مسافرة
ما زلت بعد السنة العاشرة
مزروعة...كالرمح في الخاصرة

Abies lasiocarpa forest encroaching upon a meadow, Mt. Rainier National Park, Washington: photo by Wing-Chi Poon, 12 July 2005



Base of Gorman Falls, Colorado Bend State Park, Bend, Texas: photo by Wing-Chi Poon, 23 April 2005



Three male Tule Elk ( Cervus canadensis subsp. nannodes) standing in heavy fog, along Tomales Point Trail, Point Reyes National Seashore, California: photo by Wing-Chi Poon, 22 November 2008



Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis), slightly west of Logan Pass along Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park, Montana: photo by Wing-Chi Poon, 16 June 2004



Bighorn sheep, possibly female, resting on forest floor, Kootenay National Park, British Columbia: photo by Wing-Chi Poon, 6 July 2005

Nizar Qabbani (1923-1998): Still (English: TC)