Mont D'or

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‏A poem by

Roba El-Yousif ‎*

‏Translated from the Arabic by

Hikmet Elhadj ‎*

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‏Did your mother

give birth to you

in the pastures,

‏between the feet of a cow?

‏Have she kept you in a wooden box,

‏Fir bark surrounds you?

‏Are you deciding your freshness?

‏Do you regret your softness?

‏Do you repent of your sweetness?

‏Have you ever tasted Mont d'or cheese?

‏Is there any difference between you,...