Conditionals by Momtaza Mehri
“If we agree on the same lies, that makes us countrymen.” — Momtaza Mehri
Ndako Na Ngai, or My Home by Laurène Southe
“home is a language that your heart yearns for // but never learns how to speak” — Laurène Southe
Green Card :: Evidence of Adequate Means of Financial Support by Ae Hee Lee
“you told me there’s no application form that can hold / the entirety of a life, because our days constantly spill like wine.” — Ae Hee Lee
For Keeps by Joy Harjo
“That night after eating, singing, and dancing / We lay together under the stars. / We know ourselves to be part of mystery.” — Joy Harjo
Half the People in the World by Yehuda Amichai
"And where is my place between such well-matched halves, / and through what crack will I see the white housing projects of my dreams" – Yehuda Amichai
Not Love Perhaps by A.S.J. Tessimond
"A need to reach out, sometimes, hand to hand, / And then find Earth less like an alien land;" – A.S.J. Tessimond
I Was Always Leaving by Jean Nordhaus
"The dome I cowered under / would be raised, and I would be released / into my true life." — Jean Nordhaus
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
"You do not have to be good. / You do not have to walk on your knees / for a hundred miles through the desert repenting." — Mary Oliver