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Answering   By Zohra Saed
September 2004

Henna or black ink
a woman with calligraphied knuckles

madar         zan

mother         woman

a birthmark
a star mole over
dark eyebrows
a woman in a floral veil
the smudge of black eyeliner
a white wall
a shifting ground
lit with the names of martyrs

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