Under the Broken Sky by Mariko Nagai

Author:Mariko Nagai
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

OUR NEW HOME

“Don’t trust anyone here,”

Auntie says, taking our backpacks

every time we go use the bathroom outside.

On the first day, someone stole my coat.

Then a couple of days ago, they stole

Asa’s broken shoes.

Yesterday, someone stole our space

and when Auntie told the new family

to move, they said no, no matter how much

Auntie and I yelled at them,

until finally Asa said, “Let them stay, please don’t fight.”

We moved into the janitor’s closet.

It is like a henhouse, small and smelly

and dark, but I feel safe. Auntie says that here,

we’ll be safe, and we’ll be a lot warmer

than in the classroom. With the door closed

we live in darkness but this darkness is warmer

than the cold and other people, colder still.

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