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1.
She dreamt that it rained
and she could not go out to meet him as planned.
2.
Benches.
White curved metal, each and every one bore a placard...
3.
Rae knew the Sahara,
knew that most Arabic names had familiar meanings.
4.
Among the cacti,
Rae said 'Tariq?', stressing the
q.
5.
When she boiled chicken,
froth rose to the surface of the water...
6.
The Coordinator
was an energetic woman with curly hair.
7.
How did she bring herself
to phone Mahasen?
8.
'Euphorbia Herimentiana,
Cereus Peruvianus, Hoya Carnosa'.
9.
That Saturday,
they went to the library...
10.
Twelve books on pregnancy
made their way to the counter...
11.
Yasmin drove erratically
...
12.
Tarig had a story
about stray cats...
13.
Rae went to make tea.
14.
One of the magazines
that lay open on the floor had pictures of different world maps.
15.
When she looked up,
Rae was watching her...
16.
Sammar closed the magazine.
17.
They were quiet
when he finished speaking.
18.
Outside,
Sammar stepped into a hallucination...
19.
Sammar did not like
the word orientalist.
20.
Others walked
in the Winter Gardens now.
21.
Tarig,
Rae had asked about Tarig.
22.
It had been easy
to talk when they were young.
23.
'You must tell me
about this'...
24.
She looked at the slabs
on the ground...
25.
In the farthest corner,
in a stagnant pond...