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Preface / Danusha Laméris; Interrogation Of Alternate Time Line -- The Drowned Rise From The Mediterranean -- Ars (eirs) Poetica-- In Which I Leave Behind My Passport -- Moses -- At The Gates, Gibril Asks Me Where I Come From -- At The Gates, Mikhail Makes Me A Feast Of Rain And Dirt -- Ahha (aha) Poetica -- Surur Teaches Me How To Say Ahha (aha) -- Abdel Halim Performs A Private Concert For My Mother -- Me And Edward Draw A Map In English -- Ars Poetica / Hazem Fahmy; Notes; Glossary Of Arabic Terms And Phrases. Hazem Fahmy. Cover Art: All Fingers Are Not Equal, By Victor Ekpuk. Cover Design: Petrovich/habibion.--cover. Hazem Fahmy Is A Writer And Critic From Cairo. He Runs The Literary Newsletter El-balad, On Substack. His Debut Chapbook, Red//jild//prayer Won The 2017 Diode Editions Contest, And His Second, Waiting For Frank Ocean In Cairo Was Published In 2022 By Hald Mystic Press. A Kundiman And Watering Hole Fellow, His Writing As Appeared, Or Is Forthcoming, In The Best American Poetry 2020, The Boston Review, Prairie Schooner, Notebook, Reverse Shot, And Mizna.--cover. In English, With Some Arabic Text.