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  The Arab Woman

  

  By Ikaasa29, Tenafly, NJ

  It’s 8 am, and here in New York City a woman stands in line waiting to pay for her morning boost of caffeine. Her Prada pumps tap the floor in a quick rhythm. She glances at her Blackberry as her cheeks puff from annoyance. She’s going to be late. Halfway across the world, in Mecca, Saudi Ara...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Unbraiding Her Hair

  

  By Ikaasa29, Tenafly, NJ

  She is unbraiding her hair, my mother, as the comb waits like a guitar waits for a virtuoso A hand, a tan hand, soft and smooth, comes reaching into the crystal vase like a bird swooping down to get its breakfast from the ocean, grabbing a fish to leave in its jet-black nest of hair t...