the emigree

• 'bright, filled paperweight'
• 'comes to me'
• 'lies down'
• 'takes me dancing'
• 'branded by an impression of sunlight'
• 'may be at war'
• 'may be sick with tyrants'
• 'no way bacl'
• 'love it's shining eyes'
• 'accuse me of being dark in their free city'
• 'i left it as a child'
• 'my memory of it is sunlight clear'
• 'the worst news i receive of it cannot break my original view'
• 'banned by the state'
• 'but i can't get it off my tongue'
• 'it tastes like sunlight'
• 'my city comes to me in its own white plane'
• 'i comb its hair and love its shining eyes'
• 'they accuse me of absence'
• 'they circle me'
• 'my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight'