PROSE POETRY

NATHAN KAMI
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LEBANON

I am Lebanon toward light, a landscape that remembers warmth, like the moment dawn leans through the curtains, the way stone along the coast remembers morning before the sun even touches it. And when you laugh—soft, surprised, as if the sound itself is rising with the day—something in me settles into that brightness, the way a quiet shoreline settles when the first colors lift over the water and the scent of qahwa makes the air feel like a promise. So, when we made our one rule—when I say “I love you” you answer “I love you more”—it didn’t feel like a game or a measure, but the gentle truth that light becomes fuller when it is met, that even old warmth becomes new when someone chooses to see it. And I didn’t know I could hold this much light until you gave it back to me.

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Nathan Kami is a Massachusetts-based writer whose prose and poetry explore memory, reciprocity, and the emotional landscapes we carry.