Revisions
Ghassan Zaqtan
He doesn’t mean to replace everything,
just to add a few things
to the moment when she passed by.
Move a few chairs or a curtain, amplify a sound.
A tweak of the imagination—
things of that sort, nothing more.
So smaller things don’t interfere as much.
The boy, for example:
agitated son of the greengrocer.
His rude gestures need some revision.
