adapted from France's Veil Ban Goes into Effect on Monday
“Under the legislation, women wearing the face veil in public risk fines of up to $200 and taking re-education classes.”
Wearing sun drenched African fabrics
Or candy colored saris
Or jeans tight as snake's skin
Bright as tropical birds
Women fly through Parisian markets
Buying dates and figs, baguettes and brie
Brush tanned shoulders with others enveloped in
Deep black silence of the Burka
Soon, blackbirds will be skinned
Faces will strain against sunlight,
Shrinking from hungry gazes of foreign men,
Longing for the quiet shade of cover,
Desiring only to know God
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