what happened to your passport? pichku materinu

Preamble: Switzerland has an army; I am reminded of that every time I use my cunning little knife.

Your Tibetan thesaurus
cannot render the texture of emptiness.

Flirting with you, however,
under a Turtle-Foot rain

reminds me of Yugoslavia
and its hearty boatloads
of mismatched fishermen.

Is homeland lost without its name?