1. أهدى لنا عفصاً صديـ

    ـقٌ قادمٌ في أمسه

    A friend gave us gallnuts as a gift,

    having arrived the day before;

  2. وهو مريض ليتني

    داويتهُ بعكسه

    and he is ill—if only I

    had treated him with the word reversed: a slap.