Status Updates From The Butterfly's Burden

"A myth will need to sunbathe around you." How pretty.

That's our land over there pregnant with us... When was it that we were born? Did Adam get married twice? Or will we be born a second time to forget sin?

"If I were a bird I would have burned my wings," someone says to his exiled self. The scent of autumn becomes the image of what I love ... The light rain leaks into the heart's drought, and the imagination opens up to its sources, and becomes place, the only real one.

"I will scream in my solitude...to wake me from my imprisoned imagination!"

"In Damascus:the traveler sings to himself: I return from Syria neither alive nor dead but as clouds that ease the butterfly's burden from my fugitive soul."

"Say that two people, like you and me, can carry all this resemblance between fog and mirage, then safely return."

"I have no national bird, no national tree, and no flower in your exile garden."

"So let love be an unknown, and the unknown a kind of love. How strange to believe this and still love!"