Reveries of Longing: Reveries of Longing

Hometown Checkpoints

15 Hometown Checkpoints we met at the crux of hometown checkpoints the scar above your lip crescent moon dipped water giving life i drank over and over a fountain of bricks breaking to the sound of automated revolving hesitation tell me habibti, when did the salt of my skin remind you of refugee camps turned backyard bars? your skin honey blossomed apartheid mine barbed wire burnt mango lips etched in exile in bed we both carried blown twin towers in the womb of our memory you said modernity is to the arab as commerce is to the african i said if there is difference between us, it is in passports detained and visa numbers 17 we held this unholy carnage left to saunter atop sky scraping progress and now you are gone so far away from here so far away from me ...