Shopping in Syria…

Photo by Emily O’Dell

These spiritual window-shoppers, who idly ask,
How much is that? Oh, I’m just looking.
They handle a hundred items and put them down–
shadows with no capital.

What is spent is love and two eyes wet with weeping.
But these walk into a shop,
and their whole lives pass suddenly in that moment,
in that shop.

Photo by Emily O’Dell

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