the emigree

• "my memory of it is sunlight-clear"
• "cannot break

  my original view, the bright, filled paperweight"
• "I am branded by an impression of sunlight"
• "time rolls its tanks"
• "The child's vocabulary I carried here

  like a hollow doll, opens and spills a grammar"
• "it tastes of sunlight"
• "It lies down in front of me, docile as paper;

  I comb its hair and love its shining eyes"
• "They accuse me of being dark in their free city"
• "my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight"