But the child listens to the night
and dreams with all his hunger
that he has become a sailor
his carton a ship which floats
carrying away his childhood
which becomes a bird
in one wing-beat.
(Excerpt from Rashida Madani’s “Tales of a severed head”)

Morocco: Tangier, Rabat, Essaouira, Marrakech, Ouarzazate (2018)