عطبرة
Atbara railway junction, hot morning market
tomato rinse under a weak street tap
with a platter of spring onion,
brown beans, cucumber,
Nile fish, olive oil with flat bread wrap
الطائف
Mazda truck with box of dates, oranges from Egypt
rocky Taif café in the gritty wadi air
with a warm tin of Pepsi,
half-chicken from rotisserie
clove-spicing saffron rice, Hejazi workman fare
Kerület IX
Haller Mester csomópont, brutalist apartment block
Keleti yellow tram with ticket punch machine
with a casserole of chicken breast,
new potato, green courgette
carrot, garlic, turmeric, purple aubergine
Terengganu
walking in the sunrise, a windswept Jalan Pantai
rocking fishing boats on the pungent estuary
with a banana plate of oily rice,
peanuts, cucumber,
curry chicken thigh and a cup of Boh tea
Royal Berkshire
high-class Thames by Caversham, of swan, duck, pigeon
in the warm Alto Lounge of hoi-polloi renown
with a pot of hot English tea,
a plate of sauté mushroom,
tomato, sausage, fried egg, crispy hash brown
