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    I walked in the land of souls
    And in the distance
    I saw myself
    a watery sky
    full of darting little fishes
    I went on
    beyond things
    beyond words
    beyond the body
    beyond the wind

    Then I came across myself
    © 2006, Nazand Begikhani
    From: Bells of Speech
    Publisher: Ambit Books, London
    Translated from the Kurdish by the author
    Nazand Begikhani

    Nazand Begikhani

    (Iraqi Kurdistan, 1964)

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    Journey

    I walked in the land of souls
    And in the distance
    I saw myself
    a watery sky
    full of darting little fishes
    I went on
    beyond things
    beyond words
    beyond the body
    beyond the wind

    Then I came across myself
    From: Bells of Speech
    Translated from the Kurdish by the author

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