Kamand Kojouri

“You are here
sitting in front of me 
but so are all your lovers
your friends
and family too
every person you’ve been in life with
is at our table drinking wine 
and I wonder
have we ever been alone? Truly 
alone? and how can this be
when I, too, don my tribe
like pearls when I wear
my people like perfume”

Kamand Kojouri