samira and aziza nabila awatef and 3adaal isis and ma’at yes ma’at of the 42 laws and ideals we used to live by you of white feather and commandment who made us taught us of stars and named them named us made nout and systems of irrigation nile delta source inventors of mead and kohl for drawing of lapis and woven cloth and harp sinai berber pen and paper we were winged creatures werent we tell me because i still dream of flight sometimes i trumpet waiting to be sound i who have made earrings of arrow reporting now to you of the mythical creatures i dismantled in order to become the one writing words you are reading tarsal by metatarsal i disjointed false to be true sometimes i am cell with eyes made up of five strand DNA quintuple helix amoeba bond i would claim you as my ancestors thrice but once is honor i am trying to be worthy live to have learned so much that god made arab to know what it is to be both black and jew to be arab is to beast in order to be read like scripture etched calligraphy wooden metal i ask you to marvel at poetry they tried to make us forget in guantánamo and all unnamed time will ask us of this time come back again and again while we were out the world has become image we made in our own image and this is what we hunt now ive caught my reflection between incisors i beast of no nation who want only to be read excuse me        now    it is time    to be fed