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A lark’s view of West Baghdad

July 10, 2007 by /////

 
 
This neighborhood was one child’s universe: the home, the friend’s house, the grade school, the paths traversed in-between.
 
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I still find it difficult to grasp that I see my old house again only thanks to satelite technology honing in on a warzone. The picture presents a future unimagined; you can’t see it here but the neighborhood was under development as I busily explored unbuilt houses and kicked up dust from the road in my wooden-heeled boots (a fashion for young girls) — so much yet to be.
 
But “yet to be” would translate to decade after decade of counter-development, the sacrificing of regional alliances, the depletion of dignity, so-called brain drain, and the ire of the world.
 
On a very personal level, this is where the creative impulse was initiated. I was on and off the grid, making believe with bits of detritis, testing the extent of my imagination with bricks and rocks from the various construction zones. Language got me around the neighborhood, smells and sights were subtitled in my head.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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    • Disproportion is being built.
    • Inner ear complex (with private chamber).
    • Auto mechanic with car.
    • The weather is ruined.
    • The mud theatre.
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    • The project and the departure.
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    • Mosque architecture on forest outskirts.
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    • The back of the photo.
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    • Tour of the camp.
    • Woman in winter wetlands, Diwaniyah.
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    • Following you.
    • The passage, as bent by night.
    • He lived as a woman.
    • We are led to where the buried heart stirs dust.
    • Lucky today.
    • Society of estranged lovers.
    • Young women sleep here.
    • Words are used for profit.
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    • Aesthetic theory.
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    • Body restless, climate a question.
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