So many years, so much faith, Hu, such bounty in mankind, the sun shining through its lens to etch truth into books. I hold a mirror to my face, looking at my life from the world’s arched back. Steel rods fill the mandala of my dreams, bars that won’t let me leave like I should, [...]
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Blood river train
When time works against us and weighs at the heart somewhere in a foreign land, night turns to day, and the fashion in shop windows I pass on my way from work into djellabas, the smell of restaurants into kuskus on a market day, hands all out, stretched to acknowledge this gift, walking in the [...]
Anticipation
Born in June 1961 and ยฝ-way thru my lease, the leap from nought to forty-seven is enough to make me strive for love, whatever time itโ€ll take with what we have. The air of fresh bap nโ€ hot tea fills our room, takes winter away, drops of dew caught between you and me, like laughter [...]
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