White, limitless - the paper - spread out before him, stretching and connected to the spool beneath the desk, its edge touching the desk's edge. Beside the bed: stacks of memory sheets wrapped with a rope in irregular sizes, almost reaching the ceiling, drenched with the winter water leaking from the wall, ink spots trailed onto the
My window flew
Landed behind the house
Began singing at dawn
Disturbing all the birds of the morning
And the neighbor next door
From her slumber
A narcissus arose
Asking those trees
About a child who used to sing to the sea
And the rivers
Then the throat of fire erupted
And the flute disappeared – in the
Temperatures are rising year after year; and unfortunately, everyone is in a deep slumber. The world needs a shock to retract from its self-satisfaction regarding the rising temperature of our planet and the unexpected impacts that will follow.
Approximately 22 million people are displaced each year due to weather-related events. By 2050,
Summer now gathers its leaves and departs, defeated by the coming autumn, which I dearly love—more than spring, winter, and summer. When autumn begins in Alexandria, the number of summer vacationers diminishes. The city, especially areas like Sidi Bishr and Miami, becomes less congested. Typically, the last holiday-goer departs with the
When anyone encounters a problem in life, this person has one of two choices: to collapse or to challenge. Collapse, anger or submission is an easy choice; you have to do nothing. The moment your life changes with a phone call, an accident, an x-ray or a blood test the easiest respond is to cry, scream yet do nothing to change it or resist.
