Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet, short story writer, and essayist from Gaza. He’s the founder of the Edward Said Library. In 2019–2020, Abu Toha was a visiting poet and librarian-in-residence at Harvard University.
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Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear
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When you open my ear, touch it
gently.
My mother’s voice lingers somewhere inside.
Her voice is the echo that helps recover my equilibrium
when I feel dizzy during my attentiveness.
You may encounter songs in Arabic,
poems in English I recite to myself,
or a song...