Noon
Akashic Books
Cover art by Aida Muluneh
Unsolvable body equation
If a train leaves from cairo where does it go. rhodes would have made it cairo to capetown but we all know what happened to him. Nothing. the niqabi on the train wears gloves with a hole in one finger, the index, and your eyes are peeping through that slit, waiting for her to point you in the direction of history. If a train leaves from belen, new mexico it will never go anywhere again. pops tells you about every girl who called him ugly in between every euphemism he has for gay men, dated circa 1942. If a train leaves home with all your parents on it they stare as if they are all knowing. know the things you think and lie about and will never fully feel. If a train is coming and your body is on the tracks what does that body even look like anymore when everyone is looking at it. no one wants to tell you the train is coming.
Nour Kamel