Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Born
Seattle, WA, The United States
Website
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Genre
The BreakBeat Poets, Vol. 3: Halal If You Hear Me
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3 editions
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2019
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Water & Salt
2 editions
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2017
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Something About Living
2 editions
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2024
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Kaan and Her Sisters
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2023
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The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood
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2 editions
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2022
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Arab In Newsland
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2017
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Bettering American Poetry, Volume 2
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2017
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Letters from the Interior
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2019
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Black Warrior Review 44.1
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2017
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“And to the flour
add water, only
a thin stream whispering gathered
rains of a reticent winter.
And to the flour add oil, only
a glistening thread snaking through
ridges and ravines of what
sifts through your fingers,
what sinks, moist and burdened
between your palms.
And in the kneading
hinge forward, let the weight
of what you carry on your shoulders,
the luster of your language, shade
of your story press into the dough.
And to the dough bring
the signature of your fingertips, stretch
the canvas before you, summer linen
of wheat and autumn velvet of olive oil,
smooth like a map
of silence and fragrance,
of invisible terrains of memory.”
―
add water, only
a thin stream whispering gathered
rains of a reticent winter.
And to the flour add oil, only
a glistening thread snaking through
ridges and ravines of what
sifts through your fingers,
what sinks, moist and burdened
between your palms.
And in the kneading
hinge forward, let the weight
of what you carry on your shoulders,
the luster of your language, shade
of your story press into the dough.
And to the dough bring
the signature of your fingertips, stretch
the canvas before you, summer linen
of wheat and autumn velvet of olive oil,
smooth like a map
of silence and fragrance,
of invisible terrains of memory.”
―
“An olive tree is like an iceberg,
he tells us,
the roots run so deep
what we can see above the ground
is nothing compared to
what lies beneath.”
― Water & Salt
he tells us,
the roots run so deep
what we can see above the ground
is nothing compared to
what lies beneath.”
― Water & Salt
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