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High Wire, oil on canvas, 120 x 90 cm by A. Reed Garner 51
Losses 1. All those nights we didn’t make love add up to years: I mourn them in the morning when a bright sun slaps me awake, at night under the moon’s muted light, a white lily at a funeral. 2. Surveying Beirut’s cityscape, my eyes trip over bullet holes, craters in buildings trying desperately to see things whole. Purple flowers gather between cracks, abandoned optimists. People here age faster, their hair and nails grow with a silent knowing. 3. Nothing surprises me anymore: the imam has an affair, the homeless guy in the park types on a laptop by his overfull shopping cart. I once read about a butterfly that befriended a man, coming back to see him every day for weeks. Even planets look like they backtrack in orbit, as if remembering they left something behind. 4. The lost amulet came from Sanaa’s deep labyrinth of sellers and stalls. Silver hammered in a circle of geometry, floral, radiating. A sun on my breast. I wore it like a dog tag: if I die, then please remember me by this loveliness. Now I curse the weak link in that forgotten chain. 5. After we sign the papers will we simply shut the door of that chamber in our hearts? Or will we keep one hand down and fisted, the other open to the sky like a balancing dervish whirling for a blessing from above? Feminine Kohl-ed eyes. Straightened locks. Voluptuous. The judges eyed the participants. “Must be an excellent surgeon.” Would they all pass as women? Draw in your breath. You’re next. bedouin Shahd Alshammari my bedouin roots prepare me for the harshness of the heart. nomadic, not by choice but necessity. when the well runs out when resources stop regenerating i pack light and move on. when i find my new oasis i make a home out of small corner spaces like an inconvenient guest ready to leave whenever she is asked whenever the wells run dry i pack light and move on i pack light and move on i pack light and move on over and over and over again. Nora Ali Bakhsh Zeina Azzam 52
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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 and 18: He ties the scarf back around his n
Page 19 and 20: NIDAL ...just so... They slowly ris
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: TERROR/MATHEMATICS After the behead
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
Page 69 and 70: Vereshchagin’s “Doors” All en
Page 71 and 72: See/Unsee - acrylic on canvas - 100
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Page 79 and 80: Artists’/Writers’ bios: Etel Ad
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