Cheek to the dust.

Blow.

Beside me, Suleiman leans in, too.

We turn our faces away to breathe, then blow again on the glowing tinder.

The call to prayer begins down below, from the one-room mosque by the tree in the valley.

Tendrils of smoke make me blink.

I’m here with my family, in Feynan, in the arid valleys of southern […]