conversation about home – Dalia Elhassan
i never asked to leave, they took me.
feels like i’m every nation’s castaway.
mark of my mother’s prayers.
i sing songs to myself
portrait titled after my father’s absence – Dalia Elhassan
he was a young man in amreeka for the first time, first of his name to uproot the soil that raised him & 1989 was nyc, meeting winter for the first time, sleeping on an attic floor, & i take down the details furiously