Extract:
from The Dreaming of Children

They dream of ripe food smells soft-crawling from
the plate,
Of aubergine love and green olive consummation,
The scent of tangerines knife-sharp at four p.m.,
Bread stealing hunger, and rumbling belly laughs.

They dream of prayers filled only with bus rides and
bicycles,
School-days passing in a blur of hands and feet,
Markets,
Minarets,
Marriage days,
Eyes stacked high with promises,
The rolling sway of girls raising dust and longing
As they walk, bride-price passion not far away,
Another year… perhaps two
(Insh’Allah – If God wills it).

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