But the whole thing is a journey into a subject and the transformation that takes place is the knowledge that’s acquired as you go, and all literature is based on transformation.

 

It’s so easy
to list of the origins of these
souvenirs: my Seoul earrings,

 

The time that passes between the small feathered fury of mating
and the solitary laying of eggs;

 
 

À Dieu

Hibah Shabkhez

 

When the last hunched seagull is gone
And the murmuring waves unlit,