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“For the first forty days a child
is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths,
a hundred small lessons
and then the past is erased.”
Michael Ondaatje, Handwriting
“I want to die on your chest but not yet she wrote sometime in the 13th century of our love”
Michael Ondaatje, Handwriting
“The sloshing of their hooves in the paddy field that I heard thirty yards away, my car door open for the breeze, the haunting sound I was caught within as if creatures of magnificence were undressing and removing their wings”
Michael Ondaatje, Handwriting
“There's water in my bones
a ghost of a chance”
Michael Ondaatje, Handwriting
“Girls with poison necklaces
to save themselves from torture.
Just as women wear amulets
which hold their rolled up fortunes
transcribed on ola leaf.”
Michael Ondaatje, Handwriting
“Aliganaya - 'the embrace
during an intoxicated walk'
or 'sudden arousal
while driving over speed bumps”
Michael Ondaatje, Handwriting
“I want to die on your chest but not yet,
she wrote, sometime in the 13th century
of our love

before the yellow age of paper

before her story became a song,
lost in imprecise reproductions”
Michael Ondaatje, Handwriting