If I flatten my lips,
in prayer...

I'll wait for you - near the water's golden edge.
Draped in the scent of roses, the suggestiveness...

We were 5 and 7
when mornings tasted...

I'll send you postcards
from every broken, burnt...

"The picture of your great grandparents'
wedding, with the wedding dress train...

(I dream, sir, of the routes of my childhood
of braiding my hair...

''Sometimes we wish things were different. Some...
This age is graceless, Sir...

I'll return to the palm
of my land, someday...

They questioned my sanity
for I feared not...

Sometimes I wish my heart
would grow white columns and...