A Wasm on Stone

A line, two lines, and a circle.
He did not write his name,

Noura Alshamsi
Noura Alshamsi Specialises in cultural anthropology and the intangible material heritage of the Hijaz.

A line, two lines, and a circle.
He did not write his name,
he wrote that he had been.
And after one thousand two hundred years
someone stands and reads and does not understand,
and understands that someone passed.

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Specialises in cultural anthropology and the intangible material heritage of the Hijaz.

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