Ten Years
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 08:05PM
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"Inscribe your letters in laurel trees,

From the cave all the way to the city of the chosen.

 

It was here that Destiny stood wondering.

Oh Night, are these lights that I see real?"

 

—from Emad Abdullah Hassan's "The Truth," in Poems from Guantánamo

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