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Fatiha Morchid

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Sailing

I and the sea here
Your breath
In a cell-phone
. . . carries me
beyond
a sail,
without astrolabe
and the horizon your eyes . . .

© Translation: 2004, Fatiha Morchid

SAILING

© 2002, Fatiha Morchid
From: Ima’aat
Publisher: Dar Attakafah, Casablanca

Fatiha Morchid

Fatiha Morchid

(Morocco, 1958)

Fatiha Morchid was born on March 14, 1958. She received her doctorate in medicine in 1985, and has specialised in pediatery since 1990. Unlike most Moroccan poets, who generally came to poetry from the academic study of literature, Fatiha Morchid came to poetry from science, which is perhaps why she seems free from a certain tendency to conform to academic poetic norms, or to indulge in obscuri...

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Sailing

I and the sea here
Your breath
In a cell-phone
. . . carries me
beyond
a sail,
without astrolabe
and the horizon your eyes . . .

© 2004, Fatiha Morchid
From: Ima’aat

Sailing

I and the sea here
Your breath
In a cell-phone
. . . carries me
beyond
a sail,
without astrolabe
and the horizon your eyes . . .

© 2004, Fatiha Morchid

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