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The Anthropologists
“Manu and I had no spare sets of plates or matching glasses, but we had plenty of discussion in our lives.”
Apostrophe’s Dream
“They have been friends all their lives, living in close quarters in a typesetter’s drawer.”
The Orange Tree
“Tiananmen Tower was flooded with the orange-red faces of the young guards. / People wandered and wasted away.”
The Case of Cem
“I cannot be a witness to what happened after May 5, 1481. They killed me at five o’clock in the evening.”
The Frog That Couldn’t Jump
“I felt like questioning my own existence. What are these people? Is this still North Korea?”
Amazing Sleeplessness
“From that height, he gazes / not only on geographies / but histories that have come and gone”
Coming of Age
“We’d grown up fast, working away from home, and had had to face the world and all its temptations on our own.”
Notes on the International Lightning Strike Survivor Conference
What is it like to be touched by a lightning bolt?
On Jumhuriya Bridge
“What did scare everyone was what would happen next, after the war. What would it be like when it was all over?”
Marina Fun
“There’s something magical in his movements. A liquid elegance that fills me with murderous rage.”
Poems from “Delicates”
“Traveling in Reverse,” “A Face in the Crowd (Graffiti),” “Subway Map,” and “Bunk Beds”
