morrocan femme poetry

Sailing by Fatiha Morchid

I and the sea here
Your breath
In a cell-phone
carries me
beyond
a sail
without astrolabe
and your eyes' horizon

autan now

"the Anopheles mosquitoes feed at night"

"This female Anopheles freeborni mosquito is taking a blood meal"

"But this interpretation is to misunderstand the traditional approach of many African societies not only to sickness and other causes but to the whole of life. In many parts of Africa it is widely known that malaria is caused by the bite of a mosquito and that the most effective cure is an injection obtainable in hospitals. But the question remains, 'Why did the mosquito bite me and not the other fellow?; and this becomes,'Who sent the mosquito to bite me?' It may be a ghost or a witch; and, unless the malevolent force can be appeased, it will send another mosquito to bite the patient as soon as he is released from hospital."

Can 't help thinking,
people who write like this,
have read too much Carlos Fuentes,
or might be people reading things like this,
who have read enough Carlos Fuentes.
Maybe those last people,
should read less,
not Carlos Fuentes,
but on possible travel disease threats.
Is one bottle of Autan enough?