"Portrait of My Nose" by Mohammed El-Kurd

               Arrogant with height.
One nose away from clouds.

I have my grandmother's

and in the knot, tangled

a homesickness

for people generous with

      nose.

My grandmother's is beautiful; mine is

one nose away from beauty,

one         away from Anglo-Saxon.

I have my grandmother's

and my grandmother had pride

favored functionality

she was never a

       nose away from anything

       but jasmines.

Nabil Anani