Exploring Tunisia (Photo: Emily O'Dell)
Sahara sands (Photo: Emily O'Dell)
The illustrious caravans’ thirst
As they moved across solemn fevers
With no frame to protect them from thievery
Their breasts indifferent to obloquy
Open and hospitable
Under an unmonopolized sun…
Tell me, old desert
How many dunes refusing all framework
Must you overturn
To free the storm from its debt
How many years must you fatten
To lighten the sand rose
Of its glass silence
— Tahar Bekri, I Call You Tunisia
Dune drifting (Photo: Emily O'Dell)
