Things to do in the Egyptian Desert Resort During a Wind Storm El Gouna 17
- Open the door, let the wind throw your curtains into the room, walk onto the terrace, let your hair whip like fan blades
- Lie on the floor, after yoga, read poetry from cover to cover, speak the words aloud. Say "I am as lazy as the Zambesi,/"
- Move the crocodile made of towels to the other side of the bed, slip under the covers, check all the channels. Shut it off.
- Give you sister a list
- Step out to the terrace again, amazed that the two children counting in German are louder than the wind.
- Write the chapter about home, not yours, hers
- Take the call that says the friend you were hoping to see is not coming afterall. The airport is closed
- Plan another workshop. This one on a mountainside in Jordan. Great writing will come
- Take the new chapter idea right through the end zone. You finally have it. Go.Go.
- Swap out the picture to one of the dog.
- Look at the sky, the big blank wall of dust, terra cotta. The world inverted, a friend says
- Remember to log the phone numbers.
- Practice the correct pronunciation
- Change your hotel in Beirut.Turns out that one wasn't very clean--lots of gross reviews Pay more
- Yoga, again. This time restorative.
- Enjoy several phone calls, knowing that on the other side of each conversation is longing.
- Collect your drying laundry from the terrace..it blew into the corners. it's dirty again.
- Create a collection of jazz songs that help you write. Roy Hargrove first, Horace Silver right behind
- Read about a television show you have never watched.
- Remember the girl shot by the cop. That was a television show as well.
- Feel the dust in your hair. You think of an image that is it. The chapter is finished.
- Wait for the internet to connect. It's slower now. Knows your finished.
- Hope that the folks in Palestine can attend the writing workshop. You are always hearing the echoes but not the voices.
- Describe your day as good...different
- Remember that tonight behind the curtain of dust, the layer of earth, in the sky. The moon is full and you are in the desert
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