The Tale Of The Wooden Spoon

By (author) Edgard Mounib seikaly
In a candlelit kitchen during war, a mother stands between hunger and fear, stirring lentil and thyme while correcting her son's recitation of Khalil Gibran. In her hand, a wooden spoon. In her presence, everything that needs holding, held. From that kitchen unfolds a life shaped by borders crossed and battles witnessed, by the children of conflict zones who became the reason for everything, and by the quiet, unglamorous work of love inside a family that war could threaten but never fully reach In The Tale of the Wooden Spoon, Edgard Seikaly moves between verse and prose, between Beirut and Baghdad, between a son's grief and a humanitarian's conscience, asking What remains when the one who quietly holds everything together is no longer in the room. These are not poems about war. They are poems about what survives it.