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Fatiha Morchid

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Surprise

He takes her unawares
Like a happy fate
Illumines the dimness of solitude
Electrifies her breath
. . . and cuts off
Like an electric current
On a festive night.

SURPRISE

Fatiha Morchid

(Morocco, 1958)

Fatiha Morchid was born on March 14, 1958. She received her doctorate in medicine in 1985, and has specialised in pediatery since 1990. Unlike most Moroccan poets, who generally came to poetry from the academic study of literature, Fatiha Morchid came to poetry from science, which is perhaps why she seems free from a certain tendency to conform to academic poetic norms, or to indulge in obscuri...

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Surprise

He takes her unawares
Like a happy fate
Illumines the dimness of solitude
Electrifies her breath
. . . and cuts off
Like an electric current
On a festive night.

Surprise

He takes her unawares
Like a happy fate
Illumines the dimness of solitude
Electrifies her breath
. . . and cuts off
Like an electric current
On a festive night.