Talal Alyan
Late Hour
“…until at last I lift you up and wrap you within me”
think of the moon – not as some ornament
in the sky. or a gloom
that hangs over your
bedroom in the late
hours –
think of its
pale skin the
way you would
a woman in a
green dress.
her shoulders
perked on a
backless stool
stirring a
glass of gin.
that same distance
that same thirst
like a woman in a green dress
leaving the bar.
Talal Alyan is a Palestinian writer based in New York. He has written about politics in the Middle East for various publications including Vice News, Al Jazeera English, Huffington Post, and Daily Beast. These poems are from an ongoing project he is working on about the intersection of narrative and noise.