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Poet Adil Tunyaz’s photo, in his flat in Urumchi on 27 August 2021. Photo by A. I. Elkun<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Adil Tunyaz<\/strong>*
Translated by Aziz Isa Elkun<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dedicated for A.I<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally we met
First on the phone –
Then as fast as before dusk falls
A red taxi parked next to us
Left no trace of misery,
But a thorn was left in our tongue…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your blessing belongs in a foreign language
Your two daughters as white as snow
And they have no worries
They flew with English language for a while
With their semi-transparent wings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have fallen down
Into the Uyghur language –
That language that God blessed
There is a sky underneath, and its top covered tight
Its meaning forever and the letters can reach.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The silence goes fast
Faster than a sword
I pulled back my tongue with shock
Tried to avoid even talking about the pigeon
The notebook erased itself in white
But my pen is louder than a bow\u2019s string \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If a lamb was born in a stable
Grass starts to grow in the stream
My fourth son was born and he will be coming out
To the streets where the moon and stars come out \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A stalk of black grapes
are hanging over the white paper,
If you don’t eat, I’ll eat
Oh readers, the night is just one page.

<\/strong> Urumchi, August 27, 2012

<\/span>* According to the RFA Uyghur Service and United States Commission on International Religious Freedom , “Adil Tuniyaz and his wife, Nezire Muhammad Salih, were both arrested in December 2017. Their eldest son, Imran (19 years old), was also arrested at a Beijing school where he was studying Arabic. Imran was reportedly sent to a detention facility in Xinjiang. It is believed that their three younger children have been placed in state-run orphanages for Uyghur youth whose guardians have been detained. Adil’s father-in-law, the well-known Uyghur scholar Muhammad Salih Hajim, died in a re-education camp in Urumchi in January 2018.”<\/em>
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Adil Tunyaz*Translated by Aziz Isa Elkun Dedicated for A.I Finally we metFirst on the phone –Then as fast as before dusk fallsA red taxi parked next to usLeft no trace of misery,But a thorn was left in our tongue… Your blessing belongs in a foreign languageYour two daughters as white as snowAnd they have no<\/p>\n

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