TY - JOUR
AU - Childress, Susanna.
AB - MUCHAS GRACIAS, MY LOVE/Susanna Childress I. In Houston, awaiting your flight—you have been days in transit—you try to wash your hair in the bathroom sink, you are bent over. The slight strain of water stops and starts. It is an automatic faucet, quick-spouting, parsimonious, its red eye does not acknowledge your head. Your hands shake, frustration seeping through your grip of the trivial. The Earth has become larger for you and still there is the trouble of water— the planet has run a shining across your body, and of all things: a faucet and water. II. In Nepal a woman closes the eyes of her son. It will be days before her fingers lose the feel of his lashes, prickled as the tip of wheat, whispered shut. In Seoul, a man must decide who he loves, that simple, horrific selection. Guatemala, and a peddler of bracelets takes your quetzal, slowly, turning over strands of color in her lap so that you, too, might be beautiful in the fading light of Lago de Atitlán. III. It’s true: countries outsplay their four to six sentences from the guide; countries mark themselves by the puckers of their currency, the customs agent who 
TI - Muchas Gracias, My Love
JF - The Missouri Review
DA - 2005-01-25
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-missouri/muchas-gracias-my-love-2ZejF0SGd9
SP - 52
EP - 53
VL - 27
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -