The Afterword

Tag: home

  • The Threshold Room

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    Peter
    in

    You get to build your perfect space for reading and writing. What’s it like? There is a room in the house that isn’t quite a room.Too small to be a bedroom, too lived-in to be storage,too full of sunlight to be forgotten.It sits on the edge of the family room,like a hinge in the house—a…

  • Still, I Stay

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    by

    Peter
    in

    —from the voice of a Syrian in exile I have never stopped dreaming of the olive trees.Even now,in this camp of sand and plastic walls,I see them when I close my eyes—the way their shadows fell across my grandfather’s fieldbefore everything cracked and scattered. Home is a scent that never fades.It lives in cardamom coffee,in…