EL-WARDANY, Haytham
Labour of Listening

The dead. They have a plan. And their plan is simple. It is called Sumoud صمود. To stand fast and start all over again. The dead. They direct us to the open graves, desecrated by bulldozers. A severed hand. A mutilated tongue. A stained truth, beside a suitcase of books. The dead. They are hungry, and they have a plan. Their plan is to summon us to the soil. Where they are not buried anymore. And insist that we stand fast and start from there, all over again. Haven’t written to you for a while. But you crossed my mind today. My earache made me think of you. It is a pain that has worsened since the genocide in Gaza غزة began. […]

Published by Cutt Press, 2026
Chapbooks / Poetry