How to see palace pillars as if they were palm trees

This publication is the seventh in the Kayfa Ta book series, comprising a single verse of poetry on “Abdallāh -The Slain” (Abdallāh al Qateel), a poet who was killed by the last thing he saw: the columns of the castle as palm trees. The book, is composed from the footnotes around the works of this poet, who only exists on the margins of the arabic literary canon. The text extends to reflect on monumentality, architectural descriptions, disappearance of texts and histories, and the different ways a metaphor could kill it's poet.