1. مَا زِلْتُ فِي سُكْرِي أُجَمِّشُ كَفَّهَا

    وَذِرَاعَهَا بِالْقُرْصِ وَالآثَارِ

    In my drunkenness I kept playfully fondling her palm

    and her arm with pinches that left their marks,

  2. حَتَّى تَرَكْتُ أَدِيْمَهَا وَكَأَنَّمَا

    غُرِسَ البَنَفْسَجُ مِنْهُ فِي الجُمَّارِ

    until I left her skin looking as though

    violets had been planted there in palm pith.