منشفة خملها تخال بها

منشفة خملها تخال بها

قدفت كافوره على طبق

قدفت كافوره على طبق

A towel whose pile, you would think,

A cloth whose creases suggest

Was camphor crumbled upon a platter;

She sprayed camphor on a plate

كأنما أنبتت خمائلها

كأنما أنبتت خمائلها

ما أرتشفت من لآليء العرق

ما أرتشفت من لآليء العرق

As though its thickets had been made to grow

As if its creases sprouted

By the pearls of sweat it had sipped.

I did not drink from the pearls of sweat