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I The Villa

        In memory of Skip and Mary Dison For Quintin and Griffin    And for Louise Dennys,    of you, I am sure, remember tragic circumstances of ton at Gilf Kebir, folloer by ton,    expedition in search of Zerzura.

        “I ot begin ting tonig referring very sympatically tic occurrences.

        “ture tes of ty meeting of November 194-, London

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        SANDS UP in to tance. S in ther.

        t of all cypresses s drops of rain ohe house.

        In tc pause but goes t and climbs tairs    t from an open door.

        Surns into trees and boed over its walls and ceiling.

        to turns owards ers.

        Every four days s troyed feet. Ss a o . Beyond purple. Bone.

        Sight hips.

        , s.    on    ted onto ts opy of branc, blue sky.

        Sripes across    s cliff of skin. Reaco ters.

        ? s of ration.

        urns s grey eyes toone and passes t into h.

        ening    of to     ths before he died.

        tories tes quietly into to level like a ed arbour t surrounds s spilling flo trees. s of    noo the colour of aubergine.

        I    , fetting to look at to t sins of omission but signs of preoccupation.

        o tare ravel alongside o the wall. She leans forward. how were you burned

        It is late afternoon. , t.

        I fell burning into t.

        t of sticks and dragged me across t. e self caugand up naked out of it. t on my rapped me onto a cradle, a carcass boat, a.

        t fire. t pla since 1939    of tools and utensik al of crasanks. It ime of to pick t from a cockpit became jeo stand up alive out of a burning mao knoribe.

        ho are you?

        I don’t know. You keep asking me.

        You said you were English.

        At nigired enougo sleep. So ever book so find in tairs.

        talking face, barely revealing at trees and vista t decorate tens to er.

        If it is cold so t upon    giving    even .

        Sometimes at t asleep, he darkness.

        . tle of tin s wcer.

        te pieces of soft cloted.

        man o uny-four    nigo examine he dark.

        Unclot. t reat nation    try ied suc dates to be c mouto ime    remember he air.

        Later, at tal in Pisa,        and ed tes and passed to h.

        ts. No speecar of y    te of saliva t entered e or by t running.

        S and read, t. S al,    gradually, t over.

        time in    s of    at t table, o memorize diverse jes on a tray, tossed from teaco teacaug taugaugo escape tic.

        t for more tes s t ts skin. A scurry i and ables planted in t orco survive, a man ing noorade soap and ss and    in tal for otials. Some beans, some meats. t tles of er s back to t table just outside ter-closed door and sip ao wever book she was reading.

        So tened ily or not,    like ses of a road orms, missing is as if locusts ion of tapestry, as if plaster loosened by t night.

        t sed ered because of rubble. One bomb crater alloo tairs—wly soaked armchair.

        S ed about t    ty-six” or “page one    or. Sed boto ill in them.

        Your ting rough, he said.

        tles and digging.

        Be careful. I    the dangers.

        I know.

        to read.

        aug    a dog’s pas paer, is test smell in t! Great rumours of travel! Send disgust, but t never suggested dirt. It’s a cat field of grasses, a ration of s of all taken during the day.

        A scurry in the book again.

        ting for it.    civilisation    uood tions of ? El A be one of t desert tribes. tc of tted togete garden in t Kee and various, like levels of ash on a hill.

        o taugo raise rengto    pulled dohe covered sun.

        Alments, or darkness, against     seemed to be opped and , t noise like t of a bird, per fox, w in a sewn- in his burnoose.

        t day c of t toles on differering and    of a glass curtain,    sphere.

        t of all tried to copy as a sootilt in ttles. A s tles o skin to ed especially for a ed lig glass noise and the regal walk and his face like a lean dark gun.

        Up close ted, glass t    its civilisatiole e cork t eet in tle’s teh.

        ood over ticks deep into t yoke, icks. epped out from under o o and put here.

        o everyone along te from to Giza, ty Days Road.    traded spid liquid, and moved beter camps. orms    of bottles, o    doctor, tist. er a camp a up tain of bottles in front of whoever was sick.

        and leaned back to pluck,    even looking, certain bottles. itiny bottle t. t. Indigo. Ink. River-mud arroance as ts. reen-black paste onto t ered for in a medina to t or t potent healer of skin.

        Betcroyed    oval-s for a large    portrait level in tar-sta t of ted itself to ting ts of ars, t, tuffed bear and    torn    of tning came into too, again and again, falling across t.

        At t o ty-six pe steps past toed from, so most rooms not needed, like ty, to their frames.

        So to its afternoon darkness. Sood scious suddenly of    on t rigger .

        t poured tar circle t looked onto the sky.

        ition, as if it led from one single unit, s t of t ion, t to be disturbed, sepping on prints, for safety, but also as part of a private game, so it eps t sered the seal of warning.

        S i’s room, ted iff    self on tive of 1757. Illustrated by N. C. yet books, tant page    of illustrations, a line of text for eachem.

        Sered tory kno stretcy years, ences and moments, as if ah a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams.

        talian oio t route, ery surrounded by apple and plum orche generals lived.

        Just above it tlelike battlements    t strong roops. As too be torn apart like a battles sea, by fire sroops moved from tents in to tions of ts of top storey of took over t a al, teps leading to tion of ey and roof survived.

        Sed on remainis moved to a safer location in time t electricity. Some rooms faced onto t all. S a sodden bed    a er, covered o landscape.

        Some rooms had bee an open aviary.

        taircase    its loeps during t    before t. So ty books and o to eac steps. Most of t t , drens t came in tar ever    escaped burning during t April of 1945. t. So be nomadi t or imes i’s room, sometimes in temperature or ress and tied it into a    ing sunligs s in rooms t    on ting landscape of stars, moving clouds, ning.

        Sy years old and mad and uned y during time,    t startled . Sless after ted to dark, protected spaces. Sered rooms t ure    leaves and s and urine and cables. S,    reposed in his bed like a king.

        From outside, tated. An outdoor staircase disappeared in midair, its railiive safety. tial dlelig niged everytected by t t t s safe    and    of    duties for ter good. Sient. So ion h him.

        S crucifix from t to build a scarecro wtered and ked wed.

        itep from rubble to a dlelit alcove case, ters, a feal box of medical supplies. S small ses of this she could burn down if she wished.

        Ss a matto t lifts itself onto s .

        S and e gle onto tinues bagles, so t    on t. till so s croug.

        So t of ands and pulls up t and ties it around . S a pieetal and flings it out in front of    falls just beyond t square.

        So tennis so eagle, one foot landing, t, til s square.

        Sal, pauses in t position, motionless,    still tucked up above akes a gulp of air and blo the dle.

        Now s a smell of smoke.

        Surns so sill landing on squares sennis so t into ted Italian villa, out to he building.

        Sometimes at nig surns up o dra interpret or place.

        Sebook t lies on table beside    is t ories by us t o, cutting and gluing in pages from oting in ions—so text of us.

        So read ing.

        t imes reaco ty of Rome. t of Yugoslavia. tened are/or rifi,     live in t tense.

        tant    , t    knock do roz leaps into Afgan for 170 days —burying villages. t, dry gunis,    storm t dresses in brigres tan, self into tlantic.    Imbat, a sea breeze in Nort just sigo dust storms t e    i from Maray, named after ty,” blooming for fifty days—t. too out of Gibraltar, which carries fragrance.

        t , wer .

        And t—a blast out of Arabia. t and cold souterly knoo Berbers as “t    of turkey, “poison and en in battle. As    plucks off rare petals, causing giddiness.

        Ote winds.

        travelling along ting off paint, telepransp stones and statue tan blo, dust as fire, as flour, entering and coagulating in t of ted as far nort taken for blood. “Blood rains ed     in Pal and Spain in 1901.” tons of dust in t as tles, underground creatures) ting on it. us records tion    t and mar full battle array, only to be rapidly and pletely interred.” Dust storms in t. In t t. In tzing Ginns.” t, is “copper-tinted. Nature seems to be on fire.”    So talk across the darkness.

        t. I am a man s skeletal sion like a sea in me. I am a person . So ory enters us. I k s painted on skin t tain tes of the Crusades.

        So I kneraversed it in an earlier age, freed. I kneoms of nomads besotted by silk or ribe dyed a o increase ve and ty of rainfall, and built ructures to pierce tribes    if t t moment t a storm into an adjat sp, toribe. tinual droribes suddenly made orical heir gasp.

        In t it is easy to lose a sense of demarcation.    of to t, int t build a raft... I must build a raft.

        And er people.

        In tassili I ime er s. In adi Sura I sas edge, six thousand years ago.

        Ask a mariner    kno t    be seen in rock draic. ill found in t. ter people. Even today caravans look like a river. Still, today it is er    between your h.

        among tom, a cell of torical animal, and to place.

        did most of us knotlefield eigo t.    tanks, Blenor biplane fig thousand men.

        But    marsing th Africa, in Sidi Rezegh, in Baguoh.

        ravelled on a skid beemperature fell. t of t’s er tribe t spilled and slid over sand and stoing like a spray of milk or a ed t cloto tone whey camped.

        In took o talking loudly    around     suddenly clarifying. he buried guns.

        o reac a yard or so.

        After days of travel, to move to lean tooucill ou barrel and t go of o translate the guns.

        “tre Breda macaly.” , ied o find no bullet, pus bad pulled trigger. Putered. he was moved fain.

        “Frenc-five-millimetre Ctelerault. Ligeen ty-four.” “German seven-point-nine-millimetre MG-Fifteen air service.

        to eaco be from different time periods and from many tries, a museum in t. ours of tod magazine or fi.    to anot     matter to t t to kno    the gun was.

        again and o a box of cartridges. In anoto t hers.

        , and on ttered a deck of cards face doaugo turn up tually, trout streams, birdcalls t ing fragment. A fully named oed t, bolted it, and    up in ting itself in    to be sullen and mad ten t sentence do, pig up toget to , and firing ea into to ea to fae dire, to time e ock. —t aude. t he men who had saved him for such a purpose.

        travel into er of use-fulness from tribe to tribe. tribes representing eigers specific s and specific music.

        Mostly blindfolded er-draribe ations, daes antly sounding a drone).

        to territory of five-stringed lyres. A village or oasis of preludes and interludes. iph-onal dance.

        only after dusk, ribes too    across tes flung a of breeze. Or tes s to desirable te as papyrus, liging s on omakle, revealing ning.

        t desert surrounds traversed by a loose order of storms and caravans. ts and dangers around     times    kno so    it leaves no pain, and    ill untouco signal to ors. t into in plete silence, or t see ted? Dreamed by    and darkness

        ter oed s of er. And ty of an i dang boy, like sound from a boy cer,    river er, t transpare, , everyted—like t of linen across terbirtals against the colour of fire.

        ts smoke ruments like a pulse or rain. ts    fire, to silees. tsteps s t over to te translator of guns and passes it into    you celebrate not er.

        Sands over t, looking at tucco y room. So side, releasing a movement of ss er into ill it is pletely . t    hunder.
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