Weave

by Wyn Cooper
Cooper. Chaos is the New Calm. Weave
From the mosque the muezzin calls through speakers on minarets, sounds that weave down every alley, that find me where I lie and lure me toward another prayer. I stay in a slum, don't bat an eye when people cry at the door. I can't close it on those who wonder why I'm here at all. I follow directions when they're given in language I don't understand. I watch the Turks as they converse, watch their hands weave the air, how they tell their stories here.