Thanks for visiting. I'm khulud, a feminist Palestinian writer living in Haifa. Here I share my experiences within broader socio-political contexts. I play around with poetry, and publish fragments of fiction-in-progress. My first novel, Haifa Fragments, is available from Spinifex Press (Australia) and New Internationalist (UK)
22 February 2010
unfastening, unlacing an identity
a detached procession of vieled figures in black.
all marching in silence, to drop their identities into one great box.
the box of lost people.
swallowing the fabrics - scintillating yellows and oranges, deep reds and greens, shimmering blues, and all the rest of them.
leaving them naked.
leaving them all dressed in black.
In the Name of.
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just to tell you i read it and have nothing to say. as strange as it might sound to you
ReplyDeleteyes, it's very strange dearest talma.
ReplyDeleteI also thought the same thing - one morning I woke up, and the image of these people were the last fragment of my dream... I don't remember anything else about the dream, but I woke up with a disturbed feeling. (I posted it here exactly as I wrote it down in my journal on that morning). I still don't know what to make of this... but somehow it has something to do with identities and traditions - at least it seems like it.
and it was all done "in the name of" something I couldn't identify... that's why i left that blank...
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