When You Write My Eulogy
Don’t mention my divorce or deferred adolescence but apologize
for the times I was a lousy parent.
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Barbed Wilderness
He’s tired of feeling like a criminal. He’s tired of being in a country that needed him, needed his people, but didn’t want their kind.
Immigrant
I am | the Other Side of the story, the face | from a picture book | whose title | you cannot | pronounce: | In another life | I forged with you across continents,
Dispersal Lessons
Animals move—it’s our birthright, a gift from ancient ancestors in the form of genes that could eventually code for leg or wing or fin.
‘I Have Been a Stranger in a Strange Land’ Exodus 2:22
The boat stares back with many eyes. Some closed in prayer, others close to fainting. A few people imagine childhood homes or hold photos of a small Italian port. Some cry. Some are confused.
A Roadmap of Scars
I do know that slowly, my own heart healed as patients and families invited me into the special intimacy of illness.
Rest in Peace
The roots of a dysfunctional family are deeper than unhealthy thinking; they are steel wire cords.
Will I Forget Your Face?
You were special, hard… but so are gems. You were a shard of glass embedded under my skin.