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Face

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

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. The two elders of the housewobbled on their donkeyssomewhere farther afield. They circled back that day. Today, though, only my cousin awaits In […]

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