Like a mountain bird...
The following are translations of poems by the Omani poet Hilal al Hajri (1958) from his collection titled: “Like a Mountain Bird Watching the Collapse of the World”, (Beirut 2013).A WishIf only men were made of sea hazeBefore the sunsetIf only they weren’t made of clay!The Interior of Oman Even the storms that hit OmanHad a colonial bent:They’d lop...