in foreign land

The group found that even Naga elders were unaware that their ancestral remains were in foreign land.

In the collection's first poem "to the fig tree on 9th and christian," the speaker exalts in the resilience and capacity of the fig tree to grow in foreign land as he joins strangers in picking fruit from its branches: "people gathered beneath / the tree looking into / it like a / constellation pointing / do you see it."

Man alone, intent to stray, Ever turns from WISDOM’S way; Lays up wealth in foreign land, Sows the sea, and plows the sand.

My sweetheart wanders far away from me, In foreign land or on a foreign sea.

I could not see a fair palm-tree   In foreign land, in pleasant place,   But it would whisper of her face And shake its keen sharp blades at me.