Ireland
Sweet cold rain drops dancing with a salty breeze, stale buttered bread soaking up sugary hot black tea or paired with expired frozen goods, muffled gibberish that made you think you were underwater, shield of joy, emeralds seas that touch the onyx sky
Ukraine
Dusty overgrown weeds and bushes warmed by the sun, hot fruity koolaid sweating next to borsche and more borsche (soup-anything goes), harsh rearrangement of syllables, homesick but hopeful, blocks of cobblestone telling the story of tradition
Moldova
Pungent grapes and dry cornstalks leaning out of cracked mud, seering sharp moonshine covering up various inedible chicken entrails, da something something splaciba more words da again, chaos and bliss-numb, rainbows of fields
Kenya
Sweat sweat smelly sweaty sweat clinging to the humidity of the midday storm clouds, potatoes melting in tomatoes and hot beans, toddler's mumbling mingling with english, I am a white elephant, green-everywhere
Tanzania
Burning fuel fighting with body odors, salty rice dressed in spices and vegetables, more child's speak…, I am breaking, dark faces crowding in
Malawi
Clean air blowing through tall trees in the shade by evening, more of the same but it's not getting old yet, words that tangle the tongue into knots, breathing again, broccoli covered hills
Nepal
Ice and dirt, curry-masala-cumin in abundance of rice and noodles, what did you say your name was? mishmash? safe, snowcaps that touch the heavens
India
Burning trash filling the air with smoke that overtakes the scent of human feces, rice-always and spices that make you cry, I hear yelling even when it's quiet, I am dried up, nothing but garbage…
