Abd al-Aziz was born in Beit Inan near Jerusalem in 1956, and graduated from the Arab University of Beirut in 1986. Abd-al-Aziz taught in UNRWA schools in Jordan where he currently resides. He has published several collections of poetry. He received the Jordanian Writers Society award for his poetry collection “Haifa to Shqeif”. Abd al-Aziz’s experimentalist poems are considered to be among the best in Palestinian poetry.
The House
When I met her by chance
she was a woman whose lips and braids
radiated.
She plucked a flower from my ribs
and flew to the fountainhead
where she built her house from its shining silk.
When I kissed her,
she ran like a gazelle
shimmering across God's open country.
I said, " Who are you, mare of the water?"
and she said. "I am queen".
When I embraced her
she engulfed me with her waves
and lit my spirit's stars.
I said, "Who are you, velvet flower?"
She said, "I am the down of the nightingale,
the milk of kisses."
When I gave her my sweetest embrace
and performed my ritual prayer,
she stormed through me, through every cell and vein
and erected on my dead body
a house for life.