A coffin bearing the face of a boy
A book
Written on the belly of a crow
A wild beast hidden in a flower

A rock
Breathing with the lungs of a lunatic:

This is it
This is the Twentieth Century

-Adonis
Credit: Excerpted from Modern Poetry of the Arab World, edited by Abdullah al-Udhari. Translated by Abdullah al-Udhari, Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1986.