Said Alcheikh

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I complained about your absence to the almond tree

This collection contains 96 pages of medium size and carries short and long prose poems belonging to the flash poem, where little vocabulary is enough to satisfy the image in the sense. The poems include tales of love, alienation and nostalgia.

The poems of the group seem preoccupied with the details of the loss and absence and the expectations of the next day as the poet blends dreams with nightmares to leave his reader holding his breath in front of mixed spiritual scenes of time. At one point, he recounts his memory, and at other times presents a poem celebrating the day to bring us closer to the image of a dreamy future that caresses his feelings or visions to convey to the recipient's feelings with pure poetry, transcending disasters and distortions of wars and personal disappointments.

The poems are overflowing with self-reflection and philosophical reflections, as if the poet assesses the inventory of his life and places to reach a shocking conclusion and declares that the characteristics of the homeland may be found by some people in exile without suffering.