1. I am your absence. Bring me back.
2. An undying city follows me everywhere.
3. Cold cold mornings, the restless rumbling of swelling clouds.
4. All words end at dusk. And the clouds come one by one to dissolve in silence.
5. Dust scattered on the road and dry leaves bear witness to the wind.
6. Beyond the barbed wire at the border, some flowers fallen on the ground— the child gathers them.
7. This morning the clouds wash the sky clean...
8. All my solitude, and with it a solitary stone plays with the river's waves.
9. Drought... The chattering river's hushed voice.
10. Only a single biscuit lies on the plate. This is what we call solitude.
11. After going to the funeral keep your mouth shut. Let them think you too are grieving.
12. Sometimes the scent of perfume... recalls everything but the name.
13. Suddenly, suddenly in shadows upon shadows she returns!
14. The tune the bamboo flute plays— in it someone's departure, someone's arrival.
15. In the cupped palm of my folded hands solitude and I live together.
16. The hand that holds a paper boat is the sea's rival.
17. Winter's melancholy sky befriends that foolish boy who never learned to ask.
18. When the air grows heavy, stretch both hands toward the sea thinking of old times.
19. When phone conversations end what remains... some satisfied regrets.
20. The envelope of the last letter written just before his death— no one has found the courage to open it, even today.