Issue # 8: July - December 2007

Regret to Inform That
Due to Flight Reroutement
You Must Deplane and Check In
To Dacca Airport Hotel

Yellow light in the lobby
where guards sleep, wrapped

in tablecloths—Drone
of mosquitoes and words

I do not understand—
Heat unrelieved

by an overhead fan—
Twin bed for us both,

one dent in the pillow