home?

leaving home,
life fitted in 46 kg and a carry on - again
hoping for a window seat
he asks my destination, US
did you have to remove your hijab? he asks looking at my American passport
cold sweat coming down my forehead -no I chose
I hear the stamp, another inked impression on my Iranian passport that I left, that I have made it
24 hours of suspension ...
Anything to declare? Pistachios? Persian carpet? She says with a smile while looking through my luggage
no, thinking only if I could fit home on a carpet
Welcome back home she says.