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saiks samateh <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 29 Nov 1999 11:21:13 PST
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Dear Hamadi,

Kan you plese let me know how to get a copy of your collections.

For Freedom
Saiks
TO LENRIE PETERS

The ponds of Katchikali
have dried, and
the women fetch water
from the tears
of the revered crocodiles

Who cut open
the heart
of Katchikali?

Who sewed up
the eyes
of the dove?

Who killed
the keeper, and
let loose the game

to trample
on the farms
at dusk?

Who burnt
the lone palm tree
for soda water, and
threw the gourd
into the foamy waves

as the ship sailed
away with the cargo?

What are these footsteps
on the periphery
of Fajara cemetery?

Who cut down
the mangroves
to lit a bonfire
when we don't even know
how to dance
the sewruba?

from "Recollections of a Lost Century" by Hamadi Banna














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