Pistachios for Bedouins
Origins delineated by headscarves
Indications of savagery
Evidence of restraint
Ancestors exactly one hundred years ago
Today
When marshes were laden with water fowl
And the deserts were undrained
The driest valleys
Criss crossed by salt water canals
Providing Sultanic dhows
Passageways to escape
The confines of destiny
And loneliness
Escape tyranny of washing plates
Just throw overboard
Settle next to treasure
And sunken containers
On the ocean floor