Haiku 32421

My heart is shrapnel —
Incised, excised, in your wake —
Fragments, incomplete.

“My work is to believe in grace even though I don’t believe in God. To realize that all of my greatest fears are things that are definitely going to come true. My father will die, my mother will die, my brother will, my niece, my nephew, me.”

— Ayşe Papatya Bucak / “An Address to My Fellow Faculty Who Have Asked Me to Speak About My Work”