Trafika Europe 3 - Latvian Sojourn

bodies redden with rash, but healed dreams rise into the sky like helium balloons and the smiling teeth, like crystal glasses at a wedding, break open their tombstones in an ecstasy of Faith. Simple as a cake, Clara built the first hospital for women and children in India, Clara Swain Hospital. Probably she touched the tears of the sick like a tender touch of God’s fingertips, so their tears would sway in a smile as if some righteous eternity

was being rocked in bed, like a warm Indian Ocean under the sheets.

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