— Dust to Dust
Akashic Books
Badr carries us clean through the churlish dust of nostalgia to paint–now with our hands, now with hers–the faint memories, often once or twice removed, with which she makes her own comopass. Guiding our hand, she invites us to join her as, together, we mark these newly drawn maps.”
Samiya Bashir, from the prefaceLameese Badr from “Dust to Dust”and so we found beauty in deaths
learned that faded colors
are how seasons pay homage to memories