warsanshayar:Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place // Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to be a List of Furt
warsanshayar:Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place // Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities // Warsan Shire, Conversations About Home // Fatimah Asghar, Partition // Aysha, Diaspora Defiance // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous // Kaveh Akbar, Do You Speak Persian? // Safia Elhillo, Date Night With Abdelhalim Hafez // Gustavo Perez Firmat, Bilingual Blues // Scherezade Siobhan, How to Welcome the Dead“in a bright room / on a bright screen / i watched every mouth / duck duck roll / i learned to speak / from puppets & smoke / orange worms twisted / into the army’s alphabet / i caught the letters / as they fell from my mother’s lips / whirlpool / sword / wolf / i circled countable nouns / in my father’s papers / sodium bicarbonate / NBCn1 / hippocampus / we stayed up / practicing / girl / girl / girl / until our gums softened / yes / i can speak / your language / i broke that horse / myself”Soft ScienceFranny Choi -- source link