Final Portrait of the Sudanese
my parents sit side by side in the half-light two bodies, a half-world away from me, singing the way only […]
Immigrant Poets, Poems, Tributes
Tributes
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In Praise of Forgetting
Forget to turn off the lights and wash the dishes and empty the tub. Forget the standing water and
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Immigrant English Professor’s Lament on Assimilation
Sometimes life is so middle-class normal I write in standard English fucking iambic pentameter except that one word is a
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The Immigrant
Here is good, yes? We are one, yes? This land of love you’ve brought me to is different from all
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The Man Kissed the Letter
The man kissed the letter slowly Before dropping it in the mailbox. It felt awkward dropping My gas bill in