I Married the Angel of the North Amjad Nasser • Taha Muhammad Ali

• Taha Muhammad Ali

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I Married the Angel of the North Amjad Nasser • Taha Muhammad AliI married the Angel of the North (extract) I have married the Angel of the North because it is bigger than me because its roots are 100 feet in Northern soil because it is always in when I call because it is always in flight when I call because it sees the horizons the rest of us don't because in my waking dreams the imagined wush wushing of those great boat paddle wings pushes the slowing blood through all our Northern veins "Peter Mortimer is the