A Market at Dusk

The sellers fold away their voices
as the mats are folded.

Khalid Almuanen
Khalid Almuanen Founder of the Anthro project; researches contemporary Saudi anthropology and the relationship between people and their surroundings.

The sellers fold away their voices
as the mats are folded,
and there remains in the corner
a scale that weighed nothing today,
and a cat that knows the road
better than the people of the road.

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Founder of the Anthro project; researches contemporary Saudi anthropology and the relationship between people and their surroundings.

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