Silhouettes of olive branches darken the pale walls in a tavern along the mountain she sits with a glass of arak, liquor, water, ice cubes mixed together the only customer in this village restaurant A belly dancer shakes her hips at the woman, colourful beads sway around her waist; the dancer drops a veil down […]
pull! take a bead, pivot swing behind the clay! follow… follow… follow… squeeze… now! air thunder time split by gunfire echo tree and sky clouds shiver, shake loose a spittle of rain grey smoke from a cracked gun shotgun shell, powder hot earth’s breath rushes back wind on tufts of grass soothes the fierce flash […]
Now you wake up at the train’s umpteenth extra-stop, you have been nodding off, your stare drunk in the bare, still patches of countryside and the constant rails’ shine where eyes drop. You wake up at the shuffling of steps and see passengers leave, first lingering on the railway tracks then in groups walking away […]
