If home is found on both sides of the globe, Home is of course here - and always a missed land. ~ Agha Shahid Ali

You will not be the first engineer to get a green card, Says a stranger to him, drinking beer and thinking of dactyls gone missing.

Do you intend to return? The economy over there is booming. Tell me then why I, in memory, return only to the chor bazaars?

What do you feel about the power dynamics of hired help? Love mostly - mixed with guilt of forgetting her, with whom I learned the art of planting tomatoes.

Why did you come here tonight, in this missed land? Because of This desire to hear an afsana laugh across a crowded room.

What is wabi-sabi? It is the art of abandonment that I am trying here, in attempting to make this thing of commonplace beauty.