مِرساةٌ في الشطّ

About the Poet

⁦Youssef Al-Darraji (b. 1951, Basra) has repaired river boats on the Shatt al-Arab for more than forty years and still opens his small boatyard every morning. He writes classical ʿamūdī poems in strict metre, full of palm groves, mooring ropes and old friends by the river.⁩