1. A fantasy from the mist
From ghosts and mirages

2. A ship is brought
Of loss and dust

3. And from imagining wealth
And from yearning desires

4. And from the tales of the returnee
With his wondrous luggage

5. Filled with jewelry
And perfume and clothes

6. And pockets containing
Coins without count

7. When they came back
Even palaces and domes were astonished

8. Even plains and villages
Even caves and cliffs

9. Every rock with us
Every street and door

10. And despite his fear he went
From exile to estrangement

11. He tucked his shelter of folding
His eyes a harbor for flies

12. He starts with emptiness
And ends with the gloom of torment

13. And Marib wonders
When will he return? Waiting

14. And Hadda, worries
And appointment full of doubt

15. Where will he bend? Where will he bend?
To the young farms

16. And the eyes of Samara
Jawiya's (and Waimetem's) reproach

17. He senses a hillside
Counting the months of absence

18. And a hillside yearning
To the quarries of comets

19. Shaking her breasts to
A traveler without return

20. An island puts him down
And the waste takes him

21. A traveler who tired secrecy
And a shepherd misguided by wolves

22. And disturbed the pebbles endlessly
And exhausted the plateaus

23. From continent to continent
He roams the vastest horizons

24. While she wonders about him
A question without answer

25. So he bends and builds for her
The tallest of clouds

26. He lights them but does not see
He erects them and he is ruin

27. He lives his life on
A swing of confusion

28. His days a ship
Of funeral departure

29. Taking him to the intent
A fantasy from the mist