Flirting With Khartoum: A Ghazal
In this poem, Ahmad Holderness pens an ode to the Sudanese ancient city of Khartoum Who are you now City where love reared herself a throne molded From dust Blue and white skirts flow to the nape of your waist, inviting Snake on a desert; I’m a pattern in your dust Mud house, melting like a pillar of salt, with stars Gazing from behind heaven’s tears, I become stardust A boy begged for…