Taher Adel
The letter ح does not exist in any other language, it’s pronounced as h but imagine your lungs are struggling for breath, is that why hub is the most common word for love? because both leave you gasping for air There are twelve million words in the Arabic language therefore, an Arab can tell you exactly how much he loves you in more ways than there are words in the entire French dictionary, but only one is seen as a language of love
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Issue 99
The Summer 2021 issue of Poetry London, André Naffis-Sahely’s first issue as the magazine’s new editor, features poems by Anne Waldman, Claudia Rankine, Najwan Darwish, Iman Mersal, Vidyan Ravinthiran, Momtaza Mehri, Roseanne Watt and Seán Hewitt, as well as a previously uncollected poem by John Ashbery (1927–2017).
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