Frida was alone
in a 2-hectare house that belongs
to his late husband,
who died following her mother
the house was too big to clean
and she misses her daughter

Xien Tho kept telling us that
her husband would take her on a trip
while sitting on a Dutch-Javanese veranda
she keeps remembering her mother

I recently found myself
moving into the same house where
my grandmother was bedridden seven years ago

The same bed where my mother now spends her night
trying so hard to sleep
one night we started counting the stars;
it was there all along