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An-Nur Al-Ain: Somewhere Greater Somewhere greater, the meaning of life has been written like a palindrome; night is about tensing meditations: look at palms from a full day’s labour, serving favours is a close equivalent to lifting jagged pebbles in coarse handle-less shovels. Ask the day-cestrum of the dew it must forego, and of the moon-blooming lotus floating on calm plates of an aqua-earth how bodies lumber on encumbered calves of that which goes unspoken. Come armed with stories, your chest behind a shield of transparency, heaving to the universe’s rippling rhythms, cooing like a forest flower beneath sheets of ash-clouds; somewhere greater calls from within, give rise to the ghost trying to break free. Dawn is the coastguard, your sails independent way-finders.
Sheikha A. is from Pakistan and United Arab Emirates. Her work appears in a variety of literary venues (both magazines and anthologies), the links of which are kept as records at her blog sheikha82.wordpress.com. She has recently co-authored a digital chapbook entitled Nyctophiliac Confessions through Praxis Magazine Online.