Marwa – Part VII
Mar 6th, 2010 | By Lois Bassen | Category: Marwa, SeriesWas the universe cut from whole cloth, or was it a thing of
shreds and patches?
Was the universe cut from whole cloth, or was it a thing of
shreds and patches?
Sunday, March 4, Marwa set aside homework fine-tuning preparation for the Intel Science Fair in Brooklyn in two weeks) to accompany Judy and her father out to a cemetery on Long Island for their annual rite of visit to Judy’s mother’s grave where visit stones had to be placed.
But Marwa felt herself at a great distance from the classroom cheer in a different place and time altogether.
Mid-December, another Saturday night Marwa wasn’t going anywhere, she was home babysitting for Joey, her parents out at a holiday party, and of course Sharif was in Alexandria with their maternal grandmother and aunts for his winter break.
She liked the noisy sleet against the window that shifted sound volume with the silent snow carried by glass-thumping wind gusts.
Marwa’s mother taught part-time, Arabic and Arabic studies at Columbia.
Denim Prix (‘Pree’) met Marwa on what he considered his bench on the esplanade of Battery Park City.