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From Saladin to Halab

Pushing the bus further into the mountains beyond Saladin's castle, we were overcome by the white mists. It was extraordinary.

matte fog envelopes us

white waves

flowing over the mountain top-

then cascading down over the slopes

before spreading out across the sky and becoming clouds.

and Halab is a patchwork quilt below

the fields like oil-pastel rubbings,

cream, purple and tawny grey -

a strange floor of fallen dominoes before the surge of the mountain-range beyond.

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