midday sun melts like silk in thin limestone crevices squint between the folds of your kufiyah protect yourself from the sand, military presence hidden in desert hills destruction in the desert a warm breeze brings home the faint smell of gold
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Desert Daze
I am in love with the desert. The jagged canyon walls and sandstone mountains surround you in a world of muted reds and pinks. You come home to the city covered in dust: orange stains between your toes and fingers and you are pulling grit out of the ends of your hair. Dark orange sand…
Read MoreSpoil for Stars
does the bitter cold of dusk grip you so? can you hear the last lunar sliver call out to us? she is whistling, softly we are under the same stars they wrap us up in the threads of their constellations our eyes unfocus into dizzy shotgun skies: above us they breathe, pulsing to the pattern of our…
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Feral
I strongly believe every stray cat in this country is out to get me. Most of them look like this and try following me home: There’s an old Arabic myth I once heard that if you want to curse someone, you write their name on a piece of paper and sew it shut into a…
Read MoreThe Dead Sea
I went out with some friends from my program and took a mini-adventure to the dead sea last week! It was wonderful, salty, muddy, hot and honestly, everything burned. The salt content is no joke, it literally felt like swimming in zero-gravity. Definitely slathered that mud on there too, we are talking the real deal dead…
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