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RUMMANIYEH
I remember a woman hovering over her olive-wood-fashioned board, buried under fresh pomegranates and eggplants for the preparation…
PAKISTANI IMPROV
If there is a Couchsurfing destination par excellence, it is Pakistan. I can’t think of a nation…
Beirut: On Weathering Wars
Beirut often feels like a ghost town. Streets that used to be lined with party-goers and late-diners are…
Midwestern Elegy & A Candle. A Grave. My Grief is Unspecific.
Midwestern Elegy Everything in July is heavy; the airwith moisture, the sun on tall prairie grass.Crickets groan in…
The Ghost of My Grandfather
أعاتبُ طيفهُ إن لم يزرني لعل الطيف أوعى للعتابِ “I chide his specter if he doesn’t visit…
Safari
Eyes trained in envystare straight into my solar plexus.Africa! Gosh you’re so lucky!But one day, before the sun…
Road to Rhododendrons
there is a road to take when we laughdrunk at things wenever thought were funny beforethe mind scours…
ON PRESCRIBING KINSHIP Rx ONLY
ON PRESCRIBING KINSHIP Rx ONLY COMPOSITION Each memory-coated body contains: Maps / frac-tur-ed / fumarate 50 mg (equivalent…
The Book of Buddy
Day 1099 of the apocalypse started just like any other. Lonely city streets, crumbling infrastructure, and the…
Brother
told Richie I’d meet him by the streamas the lithium ate the last of himit’s all I could…