Deity
On this day, a blinding sky
holds ribbed reams of clouds,
staccato against staggering blue.
Below, the market is a broader palette.
Every pigment is here, running thick,
spilling rich trickles onto vision.
Black-clad bedouin pass through.
Three women, shifting figures of shadow,
blot the kaleidoscope of colours.
The eldest, her face behind a gold mask,
is slowly wheeled by the others.
An ailing deity, not long for this world.
Purchases made, bags hang from the chair.
Her folded body rests laden with spoils,
as if they were grave goods for another realm.
holds ribbed reams of clouds,
staccato against staggering blue.
Below, the market is a broader palette.
Every pigment is here, running thick,
spilling rich trickles onto vision.
Black-clad bedouin pass through.
Three women, shifting figures of shadow,
blot the kaleidoscope of colours.
The eldest, her face behind a gold mask,
is slowly wheeled by the others.
An ailing deity, not long for this world.
Purchases made, bags hang from the chair.
Her folded body rests laden with spoils,
as if they were grave goods for another realm.
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Author's Note
Originally published in Whisker, Issue One.
Other stories by Hazem Tagiuri
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nice work. atmospheric and cinematic. like the use of color, then the black. but also like how it is put. like the 'ailing diety'
- also, captured here in the last two parts is how the aged can sometimes seem already connected to a next world, or 'realm'. what great work!