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Mustard yellow, off-white, and mocha brown - Mouna Ammar "Azulelos of my Grandmother's Hallway"

Indirect askings and parallel furtive answerings - Mouna Ammar "Azulelos of my Grandmother's Hallway"

Opening the door of remembering - Mouna Ammar "Azulelos of my Grandmother's Hallway"

Where every footstep created mocking acoustics - Mouna Ammar "Azulelos of my Grandmother's Hallway"

Who come to your arms for a daydream to breathe in - Mouna Ammar "Being Right Where You Are"

Closest to the heart's timed beat - Mouna Ammar "Bold as a Feather"

Even before the bird cracked its brittle tough shell - Mouna Ammar "Bold as a Feather"

Fearless among heavier materials - Mouna Ammar "Bold as a Feather"

The whimsies and pulls of different heedless winds - Mouna Ammar "Bold as a Feather"

One of the concrete possibilities of uncertainties - Mouna Ammar "Bold as a Feather"

Find myself on the wings of unknown winds - Mouna Ammar "Bold as a Feather"

Braving the dead undergrowth together - Mouna Ammar "Daydream"

My goosebumps heavy as a sandbag - Mouna Ammar "Finding Me"

A spilled jigsaw bits scattered everywhere - Mouna Ammar "Finding Me"

Spreads its zero syllabic roar over vision - Mouna Ammar "Fog's Invitation"

Pulls its heavy cloak over anxious waters - Mouna Ammar "Fog's Invitation"

Let the fog visit and vanish - Mouna Ammar "Fog's Invitation"

Position fear between our eyes and feet - Mouna Ammar "Fog's Invitation"

No barometer holds me accountable - Mouna Ammar "For Every Khala"

No near escapes from certain disasters - Mouna Ammar "For Every Khala"

No design of self-respect or self-knowledge - Mouna Ammar "For Every Khala"

Harboring warmth in the thick of a scary world - Mouna Ammar "For Every Khala"

No idea how to defy tragedy - Mouna Ammar "For Every Khala"

Her palms cupped open to the sky - Mouna Ammar "For Every Khala"

All made space from getting lost - Mouna Ammar "Homage to a Cat Stevens song"

Trust that quiet inner compass - Mouna Ammar "Homage to a Cat Stevens song"

That remind us of the mirror we share - Mouna Ammar "How to be at home"

My name is not a bridge - Mouna Ammar "ID"

Under the weight of heedless travelers' footsteps - Mouna Ammar "ID"

Fixed in architectural silence - Mouna Ammar "ID"

Requesting permission to be welcomed in - Mouna Ammar "ID"

The neatest feng-shui'ed produce aisles - Mouna Ammar "In a Fancy Supermarket"

A honey moonlight hovered far above - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"

Whispers exposed themselves as arrogant echoes - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"

Thrown open to the bewitching evening's twin sorceresses - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"

Each step circled into tight archways - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"

That snatched up every breath I could spare - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"

Thick doorways which confronted narrow winding stairwells - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"

Took all my careless curiosity to climb - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"

Through instilled grace and inherited tragedy - Mouna Ammar "Inheritance"

All the lifetimes sift down like golden grains - Mouna Ammar "Inheritance"

Decorated in the strong songs of survival - Mouna Ammar "Inheritance"

Adorned in solid silver and rare bright coral - Mouna Ammar "Inheritance"

Disperse through thousands of traveling veins - Mouna Ammar "Invocation"

The force of relentless water through dry cement - Mouna Ammar "Mama's Words"

Emptying boxes and making order out of pieces - Mouna Ammar "The Meaning of Unpacking"

That collapsed over a dusty forgotten story - Mouna Ammar "The Meaning of Unpacking"

Concealing a lapiz lode of heart - Mouna Ammar "The Meaning of Unpacking"

To keep the traces of buried experiences intact - Mouna Ammar "The Meaning of Unpacking"

The excavated artifacts of discovering myself - Mouna Ammar "The Meaning of Unpacking"

A gift I never expected - Mouna Ammar "My All-American Car - A Story"

Who marry excellence and understatement - Mouna Ammar "My North Africans"

Neighbors and guardians of history - Mouna Ammar "My North Africans"

Inhabit imagination in real time - Mouna Ammar "My North Africans"

When the first news of grief reaches them - Mouna Ammar "My North Africans"

Command our sadness to dance to God's will - Mouna Ammar "My North Africans"

Through every step of life's endurance parade - Mouna Ammar "My North Africans"

That makes the walls themselves remember - Mouna Ammar "Ode to Ammou"

A handyman when something breaks down - Mouna Ammar "Ode to Ammou"

An angry epithet baring its teeth - Mouna Ammar "1 Zmagria Place"

The ones who never experienced transplanting - Mouna Ammar "1 Zmagria Place"

Sketch on your mind and heart's canvases - Mouna Ammar "Our Names"

Emerged first in a trickle then a gush - Mouna Ammar "Our Names"

From the quiet dark file drawers of imagination - Mouna Ammar "Our Names"

Heavy with a whole collection of fresh fruits - Mouna Ammar "Our Names"

Slowly and steadily defying the sinking destruction - Mouna Ammar "Our Names"

Defying windy bureaucracies with their cadences - Mouna Ammar "Our Names"

Gaze deeply into your heart's topographies - Mouna Ammar "Permission"

Do not avoid your headwinds - Mouna Ammar "Permission"

Your own broken and soldered together heart - Mouna Ammar "Permission"

Allowed room for grief to burn him - Mouna Ammar "The Scent of Goodbye"

Ripened dry to the song of summering jays - Mouna Ammar "Stillness is Resilience"

The stripped woods and chilled waters - Mouna Ammar "Stillness is Resilience"

Crisp reeds and all the ready bare twigs - Mouna Ammar "Stillness is Resilience"

Bright blue and violet summer flavors - Mouna Ammar "Stillness is Resilience"

That speak to me of pauses and continuings - Mouna Ammar "Stillness is Resilience"

When the merciful snow cloaks me - Mouna Ammar "Stillness is Resilience"

Sugar dusted images I keep visiting - Mouna Ammar "Time-travel"

The non-stop roaring hum of cross-stitched freeways - Mouna Ammar "Time-travel"

The explosive releasing moment of a tear - Mouna Ammar "To Boston"

Too scared to stand that close to emotion - Mouna Ammar "To Boston"

Your native trails cradled my fearful footsteps - Mouna Ammar "To Boston"

Your ancient ground and your somber river waters - Mouna Ammar "To Boston"

And saying goodbye does not end anything - Mouna Ammar "To Boston"

Walking down cracked sidewalks - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."

Sharp singing aromas from scarred woks - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."

Where nothing lasts past a moment's trends - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."

Learned, done, dusted and trusted to memory - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."

Each corner exhaling the smoke of decisions - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."

Buried under sleek pavement and spindly landscaping - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."

Old lines sunk deep in the forehead of the intersection - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."

To reunite shreds of boxed childhood memories - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."

A call that requires you to hear your own whisper - Mouna Ammar "What it's Like"

Unfurled to the winds of curiousity and imagination - Mouna Ammar "When I miss them"

With the willing submerged assembly of tree roots - Mouna Ammar "When I see the Suffering of My People"


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