My death is not a song by Mohammed Moussa
“Remember not my name / But the names of my kids / who you killed while / they were carrying my death” — Mohammed Moussa
only an american by Mandy Shunnarah
“They called their first child, a daughter, / Patricia—with a P. Because who would believe / an umma & baba from Falastin would name their / child with a letter their mouths refused to speak” — Mandy Shunnarah
On Discovering a Butterfly by Vladimir Nabokov
“thus became / godfather to an insect and its first / describer -- and I want no other fame.” — Vladimir Nabokov