oakdale.
[no date] I was thinking yesterday of 2 things – how easy it was to avoid conversation; and how this trip, speechless, reminds me about the meditation camp Ridwan told me where for the whole week they didn’t talk, didn’t…
mama.
The bus stopped. It was dark. I was asleep, and my contacts were in their case. As people went out of the bus I thought it would be a good exercise to walk around without my contacts. So I did….
salt.
She pointed at a truck that passed by. I used to work for them – driving all over the country! She said, her bulky arms waving. On them she tattooed a few names; past boyfriends, husbands, fathers of children. And…