This aquatint etching was created as a response to Ali Al-Jamri's poems The Blind Man Whirls in the Coffee Cup and Tablet MMXXI: . i u s . . r . . w i . .
On the table lies an Arabic coffee pot called a 'dallah', a plate of dates and baklava, tipped over toothpicks, a coffee stained book of 'The Epic of Gilgamesh' and a spilt mug of coffee adorned with a buckthorn decoration.