Beast at Every Threshold by Natalie Wee

Author:Natalie Wee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

IMMIGRANT AUBADE

I knew you first as the shape of some bird

& then the warble that quickens air into spring.

My throat overflows with the lullaby

of we who name our motherlands

the place where sunset meets the sea,

we for whom maps hold no wonder

our bodies can’t outmatch. It’s magic, how

another diasporic darling makes

where are you from sound like sisterhood

instead of a reminder I’m not really from here.

Here, where someone’s dreams brought us.

The centuries gave us each other & then

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