Soldiers: poem by Golan Haji, translated from the Arabic by the author

Soldiers is a poem by Golan Haji, printed in issue 24 of The Wolf. The page states that it was translated from the Arabic by the author. Other writers later referred to it by title when describing a reading by Haji, and listed it among his poems.

The poem is made of questions and statements. It asks how to hide a dead man climbing the speaker's legs, and what separates the speaker's name from a dry scratch. The speaker says he is not afraid of being misunderstood but of not being loved, and describes sneaking into the house of language like a thief, where whatever he writes accuses him.

Poems in this selection

• Soldiers
• Shooting Sportsmen