The opening forms a single chain: exile, separation, the turns of fortune, entry into Ṣanʿāʾ, empty provisions and a search through the streets.
Its craft is purposeful. Verbs show movement, metaphor makes exile imaginable, and rhymed prose makes the words memorable. These devices sharpen rather than conceal the narrative.
Three expressions to retain:
“غارب الاغتراب” — estrangement pictured as a mount.
“خاوي الوفاض” — an empty provision-bag.
“فطفقت أجوب طرقاتها” — I began roaming its streets.
The next passage continues the narrator's movement through the city.