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Darling

A poem by Naomi Shihab Nye, published in The Atlantic in 1995
by Naomi Shihab Nye Nov 22, 2020 1 minuto
Source: Miki Lowe

Naomi Shihab Nye’s “Darling” is a poem filled with ghosts. Visions of Lebanon haunt the narrator thousands of miles away in Texas; every mundaneEven within the imagined or remembered scenes of Lebanon, there are ghosts:

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