Today, I’m excited to talk about “A Music Sentence,” a poem with an intriguing form by a poet I discovered recently – Mahmoud Darwish. Darwish published his first book of poetry when he was 19 years old and went on to publish 30 books of poetry and 8 works of prose. “A Music Sentence” is included in his poetry collection “If I Were Another,” which has many long poems, broken up into shorter parts. In his poem, Darwish depicts an ordinary scene of a community continuing its daily activities despite him not being there. He doesn’t directly describe them, but instead does so in a very roundabout way (“a man now, instead of us,/washes the moon/and walks over the river’s crystal”).