Compliment cappuccino at Archipelago after grilled giant prawns dining high above the sea. Calls to Prayer from 40 mosques. Stiff breeze in the crackling palms. Dhows gliding silhouetted on the glassy sea at twilight. Rooftop under pink sky. Red tin roofs. White robed men. Beautiful women in long robes, colorful head wraps, carry themselves like princesses. Fine features, slender bodies, graceful carriage. Strolling on the sea promenade. All slow motion. Pink fade.
Lacy dark balconies on whitewashed stone buildings 300 years old. Dancing palms. Polite merchants taking "no thank you" responding "OK. Be Happy"
Whitewashed room. Everything white except the mahogany bed shrouded in yards of netting. Central courtyard fountain Palms. Vases of bougainvillea. Dark lacy balconies. Shadows of women blue wrapped heads washing washing the dust away.
Dark faces like shadows appearing. Disappearing. Down narrow alleys. Time like long ago.
Cultures mixing Arab, Swahili, European, cappuccino skin. Fine features. High cheekbones. Sometime blue eye. Ebony skin. Almond eyes. Smoky nights. Secrets. Slow. Slow.
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