1. Pigeons will always eat before you do.2. The police torch is never looking for good news.3. Newspapers keep you warm if you don’t read them first.4. Names are lighter than blankets—you can carry them […]

desideratum—for A. we are nomads: refugees displaced by the cartography of becoming, striding uncharted courses withhandfuls of hope for sustenance. before refugees, we were residentswith claims to home. but home was the nirvana we never […]

A place that only ever was. Where once there was a table, & a chair, & a plate. A cup—water. Cold. Bowl of salt. Walls warmed by breath.When one stood next to the other, the […]

At the Gates My mother’s spirit is everywhere, and I am a coward who has run away from home in the name of healing. I have left my father with the loneliness of the giant […]

Do you know the feeling of losing home in your own country? the act of carrying it beneath your feet and God upon your tongue. Inhaling the smell of war through your nostrils. A boy […]

ICE “And paving stones like Jocko Graves, the slave of General Washington, who froze to death, enfolded in snow on the banks of the Delaware River. His lantern out in front of him, awaiting his […]

An Elegy for Kiswahili Sanifu Swahili is “among the 10 most widely spoken languages in the world, with more than 200 million speakers,” UNESCO Africa Renewal, 9 December 2021 I. On the edges of the Congo,remnants of […]

The rats in Rahman’s ceiling have a certain music to them—a haunting melody that can’t be mistaken. In the morning, it’s a lilting la-dee-da; by night, a muffled dee-dum, dee-dum. Their shrieks swell and sink […]

“There must be ways people who lie down daily in the sun and the rain and are lashed by strong winds look at their society that are different from those who do not live under […]

He is curled on the floor with his back facing the viewer. On the sheet-metal garage door before him, ‘no parking’ is written in caps. A few feet away from his head is a cage-like […]