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Face

Ann

Faced with a blank page, The child scrawls facesDrawn from a small map:Gods in parental disguise, children, caretakers at the kindergarten.   Inside a circle rimmed by tangled lines,A vertical line with two small circles at its base,Two circles at its end, one on each side,And two horizontal lines curving downwards or upwards.The barebones of face […]

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Ghawli

Ann

Leaving, I remember.The hay of a midsummer noonsurrounded by the cicada– the sound of the sun In the centre, two children sit on a rug like a woman’s face,taking turns combing each other’s hair. In the centre, two children sit on a rug like a woman’s face,taking turns combing each other’s hair. The two elders […]

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