Poetry Foundation
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from: “Borderbus” by Juan Felipe Herrera
from: “Borderbus”No somos nada y venimos de la nadapero esa nada lo es todo si la nutres de amorpor eso venceremosWe are nothing and we come from nothingbut that nothing is everything, if you feed it with lovethat is why we will triumph We are everything hermanaBecause we come from everything Herrera, Juan F. “Borderbus.” Continue reading
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from: “Tablets IV” by Dunya Mikhail
from: “Tablets IV”7The map of Iraq looks like a mitten,and so does the map of Michigan—a match I made by chance.8If you can’t save people,at least don’t hate them. Mikhail, Dunya. “Tablets IV.” Poetry, vol. 212, no. 4, 2018, pp. 314-319. Continue reading