Illustration: AI Poetry rarely travels alone. Its metaphors, rhythms, and silences often transcend the written page, finding unexpected forms in other arts. Such is the case with A Train Crosses the Desert, the evocative poem by Egyptian writer Ashraf Aboul-Yazid, which inspired Pakistani filmmaker Rahul Aijaz to create a short film bearing the same title. Yet the relationship between poem and film is far more complex than a conventional adaptation. Rather than translating ve
