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The Forever Home
What did they think as the boat sailed into the pretty harbor, as their ship docked and out…
Point of no Return & Others
Point of no Return Badagry (circa 1840) Muzzle-mouthed singing the silent song of loss through the ages, branded…
Fleeting Memories
In this memory, I am six, sitting in my elementary school classroom. It’s Valentine’s day and I’ve…
Anti-Elegy
After Marci Calabretta For my mother, who came here as a teenager,working twelve-hour days, not because we were…
Lost
As waves pillage the coastal towns,and refugees cling to their roofs,I want my now to ask your thenwhat…
Gulf of Aqaba & Aubade by the Red Sea
Gulf of Aqaba through coral forest green pink intricatenets of living stone hinged shells filtering mouths glow of…
generations of mothers weep
Borders I did not go to school for poetry or writing. Art has always been something that I…
In Memory of My Friend M. Al-Hawaj
Our student meals, grilled breasts and coke,while noon withdrew its sweaty fingers.The rounds about the artless townas youth’s…
The Book of Time
Baghdad, 840 A.D. I must inform whoever will stumble upon this manuscript that I have written it with…
To Voyage Up a Memoir
I tell him I’ve been reading Edward Said’s Orientalism to help me ground my bildungs memoir within the…