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The Salt ‘n’ Pepper Restaurant
(Fort Kochi, Kerala)

Yessica sips masala chai at an outdoor table,
trying not to smile at a Frenchman strumming
Bob Marley for her. She just wants peace

tonight, after travelling from Tamil Nadu.
There, she slept on mats, shaping vowels
for cleft-lip children, forming the sounds

essential for them to live, in a country where
disability can mean death. Rarely do these bright-
eyed kids meet a foreigner, one who had to learn

torrents of Tamil double-quick, often miming
through conversations. It was salt and pepper
for a while, a strangeness in the soul, but Yessica

came to love the people, and the way they insisted
she join them on Sundays singing hymns
she has forgotten, their songs of redemption.

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from Chai: Travel Poems, released April 20, 2012

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