Ramadan

This is another of Annie's poems, written during a holiday in Egypt in 2002.
 
Ramadan
 
The end of yet another blessed day
Sun descending behind purple hills
The heat and dust of the day
Ascend to heaven in a palpable rosy haze.
Swifts and swallows rise and fall
Swooping low out over the river,
Dark against the sky
The fringed heads of palms chatter with birdsong
And somewhere, the Imam begins the call for sunset.
 
 
Egypt nov/02