June 19, 2026

I Am Not Your Translator

by Fady Joudah

Without the untranslatable the translatable is nonviable. The untranslatable, too, is a biologic imperative. At the gene level, an intron is a noncoding sequence that indicates where the translatable sequence is. And the untranslatable is a cosmic imperative as well. The Arabic dark matter with which English light seems unwilling to interact.

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August 16, 2024

How Is Your Devastation Today?

by Fady Joudah

They say the father refused
to be a collaborator. And the mother,
a physician, a specific kind of witness,
had looked at her killers the wrong way.

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November 20, 2023

Sunbird

by Fady Joudah

from womb
to breath and one
with oneness

I be,
from the river
to the sea.

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