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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…
Anti-Elegy
After Marci Calabretta For my mother, who came here as a teenager,working twelve-hour days, not because we were…
Fleeting Memories
In this memory, I am six, sitting in my elementary school classroom. It’s Valentine’s day and I’ve…
Lost
As waves pillage the coastal towns,and refugees cling to their roofs,I want my now to ask your thenwhat…
Brick Lane & Umrah in the Anthropocene
Brick Lane I don’t believe in Western psychotherapists: I believe in shopkeepers from the Global South. Hard techno…
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…
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…