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GIRL ...settlements, swimming pools, dates... NIDAL ...stockpiles, guards, guns. GIRL But still... NIDAL We know... They slowly begin to rise so they are sitting on their knees. GIRL ....that after a village is destroyed... NIDAL ...what is needed is to build something even if it’s only... GIRL ...this high... NIDAL ...that high... GIRL ...this tall... NIDAL ...that short... GIRL ...building a wall... NIDAL ...patting a wall into place... GIRL ...by moonlight, only by moonlight... 15
NIDAL ...just so... They slowly rise to their feet NIDAL ...just so something is left standing at dawn. Fajer. He sits cross-legged on the stage. GIRL At dawn, he was sitting outside... NIDAL ...twenty feet from the mosque waiting for prayers to start. GIRL At dawn, they took him. Later, they hit him. They argued about hitting him more. Hitting him more, they decided. His small body on its side. NIDAL How do you burn a body? They didn’t know. Burning my body, they learned. GIRL I dreamed him. Even as they found him, even then, I dreamed him and it was the dream that brought me here. I had never up and gone anywhere. I up and came here. BLACKOUT They exit in the dark. 16
- Page 1 and 2: Volume 3 Issue 2 Summer 2015 From t
- Page 3 and 4: 58 Nada Faris Janus/Portunus 64 Ann
- Page 5 and 6: Finding the words, oil on canvas 10
- Page 7 and 8: Thinking of lost cities mixed media
- Page 9 and 10: HIDDEN STORIES On the upper slopes
- Page 11 and 12: the country. She raised three sons,
- Page 13 and 14: Moon Dancing in the Courtyard of th
- Page 15 and 16: She slowly, sinuously leans towards
- Page 17: He ties the scarf back around his n
- Page 21 and 22: MANJU Those only, Miss. I watch tho
- Page 23 and 24: Seek - acrylic on canvas - 50 x 70
- Page 25 and 26: “The sexually immoral will be in
- Page 27 and 28: I flop down onto the bed and cover
- Page 29 and 30: “From the Eye of the Sun” O chi
- Page 31 and 32: To Market, to Market Omdurman, Suda
- Page 33 and 34: Demagogue The lie spread from his l
- Page 35 and 36: Montagne I Aquarellé, 2015 by ETEL
- Page 37 and 38: Psychoacoustics no. 1 by Mark tardi
- Page 39 and 40: Falafel Chickpeas herbs and spices
- Page 41 and 42: Traveler When you visit the dead do
- Page 43 and 44: Etel Adnan: What drives me on? I re
- Page 45 and 46: emerging from the ashes of our patr
- Page 47 and 48: The Melancholy Oud By Sahar Mustafa
- Page 49 and 50: I nod and then he slides the instru
- Page 51 and 52: Mother and The Lover’s Rock A bli
- Page 53 and 54: TERROR/MATHEMATICS After the behead
- Page 55 and 56: Losses 1. All those nights we didn
- Page 57 and 58: Dinnertime The forks to probe are w
- Page 59 and 60: ORCHARD Given a river last I saw yo
- Page 61 and 62: Growing Up Solid in Kuwait At first
- Page 63 and 64: “This secret breathing”: The Po
- Page 65 and 66: trust me if words do not first crac
- Page 67 and 68: PROPHET A river sloshes through Egy
GIRL<br />
...settlements, swimm<strong>in</strong>g pools, dates...<br />
NIDAL<br />
...stockpiles, guards, guns.<br />
GIRL<br />
But still...<br />
NIDAL<br />
We know...<br />
They slowly beg<strong>in</strong> to rise so <strong>the</strong>y are sitt<strong>in</strong>g on<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir knees.<br />
GIRL<br />
....that after a village is destroyed...<br />
NIDAL<br />
...what is needed is to build someth<strong>in</strong>g even if it’s<br />
only...<br />
GIRL<br />
...this high...<br />
NIDAL<br />
...that high...<br />
GIRL<br />
...this tall...<br />
NIDAL<br />
...that short...<br />
GIRL<br />
...build<strong>in</strong>g a wall...<br />
NIDAL<br />
...patt<strong>in</strong>g a wall <strong>in</strong>to place...<br />
GIRL<br />
...by moonlight, only by moonlight...<br />
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