{"id":3088,"date":"2017-07-24T03:26:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T03:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?page_id=3088"},"modified":"2017-07-24T03:26:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T03:26:54","slug":"tamer-mostafa-summer-2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/tamer-mostafa-summer-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamer Mostafa, Summer 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Panegyric for a Self, Hidden Within<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I journeyed the trail of its being<br \/>\nlike the oxidized imprint<br \/>\nof Nefertiti\u2019s tapered headdress<br \/>\nflaring atop a copper plate.<br \/>\nA wide jellabiya and tight kufi<br \/>\nsheltered the bafflement of my body,<br \/>\nits siphoning an Arabic accent,<br \/>\nthe rising intonation of a longing<br \/>\ntranslated to a melodic madness.<\/p>\n<p>I arrived, believing the existence<br \/>\nwould leap from a limestone\u2019s surface<br \/>\nand ingurgitate me in a whirl<br \/>\nof humid sand tumbling from an apex,<br \/>\nor reorient me within the waters,<br \/>\nlucent under the Citadel,<br \/>\nuntil what emerged was a spirit<br \/>\nimmersed in a secluded history<br \/>\nand a lone quest concluded.<\/p>\n<p>I returned over the original route,<br \/>\nconfronting the emblems of my steps<br \/>\ndoused in the analogy of stallions,<br \/>\nforelocks hoarding the formula<br \/>\nof virtue, weather beaten and looted.<br \/>\nIt was then that I visualized<br \/>\nthe presence, interned inward<br \/>\nlike a land of walled bondmen<br \/>\nhurling rubble at the blockade.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>\r\n*Jellabiya-An Egyptian Garment\r\n*Kufi-A brimless, short, and rounded cap.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inauguration Day, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The wake was quick,<br \/>\nspectators bemoaning<br \/>\nover the synthetic body,<br \/>\nprobing its soil<br \/>\nas if an apocalyptic relic<br \/>\nstowing a copper crown,<br \/>\na tabula ansata<br \/>\nstigmatized in censure.<\/p>\n<p>We consume dinner rations<br \/>\nwith dullness,<br \/>\nfinely sharpening idioms<br \/>\nof a mended memoir,<br \/>\nits author, the remonstration<br \/>\nof occupants<br \/>\ncoiled in a concocted<br \/>\nreconstruction of records.<\/p>\n<p>Consumed in a residual<br \/>\nstrategic transition,<br \/>\nour backs are turned<br \/>\nto the embodiment<br \/>\nunfolding out of itself<br \/>\nlike the creases of a flag<br \/>\nshrieking in the wind,<br \/>\nits disputed truth resurrected.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tamer Said Mostafa is an-always proud Stockton, California native whose work has appeared in nearly twenty various journals and magazines such as\u00a0<em>Confrontation, Monday Night Lit,\u00a0and\u00a0Mobius: The Journal of Social Change\u00a0<\/em>among others. As an Arab-American Muslim, he reflects on life through spirituality, an evolving commitment to social justice, and the music of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Panegyric for a Self, Hidden Within I journeyed the trail of its being like the oxidized imprint of Nefertiti\u2019s tapered headdress flaring atop a copper plate. A wide jellabiya and tight kufi sheltered the bafflement of my body, its siphoning an Arabic accent, the rising intonation of a longing translated to a melodic madness. 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