Prompt: What item do you own that you think best reflects you as a person?
Blushing shells from ocean caverns in Musandam.
Inky black pebbles from a remote village in the mountains of Khasab.
Sediments of sunsets from an ocean of pink rock in Sharjah.
Curlicues of white stone from the shores off Brighton.
Shards of earth to call my own,
when home is far,
I hold them close.
-Zafra Usman