Reading from Southbank Centre's Poetry Parnassus festival, 2012. 

Translated from  the Arabic by Sarah Maguire and Atef Alshaer for The Poetry Translation Centre:
 
Nothing
 
Before you start reading,
put down your pen:
consider the ink,
how it comprehends bleeding
 
Learn
from the distant horizon
and from the narrowing eyes
the expansiveness of vision
and the treachery of hands
 
Do not blame me – do not blame anyone –
if you die before you read on
before blood is understood