Agitated Air [what it would mean to move]
what would it mean to move
out of your orbit into what
long night no fun being
locked here bright face always
turned to your indifference
how could I have known it would
be hard to live on radiance alone
but if I must let me not want
more than this field this tender to
& fro in equal time let it do
From Agitated Air: Poems After Ibn Arabi (Tenement Press, 2022) by Yasmine Seale and Robin Moger. Copyright © 2022 by Yasmine Seale and Robin Moger. Used with the permission of the authors.
Yasmine Seale
Yasmine Seale, a writer, translator, printmaker, and artist, was born in London in 1989.
Among Seale’s translations from Arabic are Something Evergreen Called Life (Action Books, 2022), a collection of poems by the Sudanese writer and activist Rania Mamoun, and The Annotated Arabian Nights (W. W. Norton, 2021), described by The New Yorker as “an electric new translation.” Seale is the coauthor of Agitated Air (Tenement Press, 2022), a collaboration with the translator Robin Moger, responding to the work of the poet and metaphysician Ibn Arabi.