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The almond trees
The apricot orchard
The archway centuries old
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The bakeries
The banks
The beaches
The bookstores
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The coffee shop
The care home
The cats under the awnings
The calendar on the wall
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The dentist's office
The dessert shop
The dogs on the rooftops
The domino players
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The eccentrics
The elders
The engineers
The extroverts
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The farms growing eggplant & garlic
The fig trees
The flock of sheep
The funeral procession
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The gardens
The graveyards
The goats grazing
The grocery stores
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The hidden
The homeless
The hopeless
The hungry
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The jetty shimmering blue
The journalists dodging drones
The junkyard
The jump rope game
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The kebab stand
The kindergarten
The kiosk selling jewelry
The kite shop
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The lavender patch
The lost child
The last call to prayer
The long road
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The marble staircase
The men wandering alone
The mice in the eaves
The mistaken step
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The nest of swallows
The nearest dreamer
The next person exiting the house
The nurse on the night shift
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The osprey
The ocean at dusk
The occasional lovers
The olive trees swaying
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The people dreaming
The people who can't dream
The pots of mint & thyme
The poets unheard
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The questions typed into phones
The questions formed at dawn
The questions conceived in the drone-buzzing night
The questions not yet answered
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The rabbits running
The root cellars
The roosters who've stopped crowing
The rugs tinted scarlet in the sunset
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The safe havens
The starving dreaming of bread
The starving running for bread
The starving too tired to run
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The teachers of Arabic, Hebrew, English
The towers ornate with tiles & script
The twisting path in the missile-whistling night
The tents crowded into the square
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The underpaid
The uncomprehending
The unseen
The unknown futures
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The Victorian poetry books of the English tutor
The violin shop
The vintage records of the songwriter
The vineyards blurry in the smoke-drenched haze
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The water filtration systems
The western light in the alleys
The wishes not spoken
The wonders not yet beheld
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The X-typing activist
The X-reading nonsleeper
The x-ray machine in the shaking hospital
The xylophone in the music school
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The yellow marigolds in the vase
The yarn gathered in the baskets
The yard with the donkey at rest
The youth out looking out at moonlight
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The zigzag path of the bee
The zodiac pondered by flashlight in the rumbling dark
The zone reserved for the removed
The zoo where the animals starve
