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Haveli

Sheikha A.

The halls around me shed their dust
like flea-motes,

I know this place of de-sewn shadows,

walking the lengths of my ancestral home

while I smell the carpets hiding
their wetting greed

rolled and stacked up, I see rooms come out

of rooms, the walls shift to the forward
shuffle

of my feet, more carpets, more dust,
more musty

shame hangs with their sons scaling
the cob

webs, the dust float like angry flies
over an empty plate

that is my body, shed of bones,
given to rituals

as the walls keep opening into rooms,
my steps

braver, my heart the one of a deer
on a stick

over a cooking fire, I know the finding of

nothing within something that is everything

and the walk becomes a more
pronounced science

the dust gathers thickly, as though by command

the walls end to a wood-latticed window –
the gates of the shadow
wherefrom it’d enter –

the road beyond a tapered racket of shops

without doors, the open faces of
which look up

telling me this is home.

 

* Previously published in Danse Macabre, 99



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