Fragments on Naturalization Snigdha Koirala

 

Fragments on Naturalization

Snigdha Koirala

— My father’s name, my mother’s name I dream the line of letters           — I came not before an apple tree Malus Sieversii, seeing the faces of silk           — The road before this of blood The apples tumid with grief           — Ad domestica A veil of home; a state           — A whole life of waiting & before that:           —