Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.
Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?
Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.
Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol.
And what I don't understand I grasp it only when it's too late.
The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.