How to Make Round Rotis

CW: Abuse

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Three Poems

Anxiety

Don’t Eat That

I Swallowed Tears for You

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The Door | My Ancestors Cries

I walk toward I step through the door—

the door.

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To Silence –From Defiance

The silent slip of

My tongue over the

Glassy roof of my

Mouth caught

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Next | Survival

First the toes seize up. We triple in size. Cower behind our blue ox. We fasten our fingers over

our mouths so that they may not find us by our breathing.

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Three Poems

By Israeli-born poet Lee Broda

Acre, Israel

Last Time I Checked, I Was Still an Israeli

My Aleppian Legacy

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She is Art | Shopping

abstract realism

a divine duality

endlessly evolving

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How a Filipino Mother Says I Love You

She marinates my petaling skin,

with Vicks Vaporub. The cracks stop

at my stomach, to reveal a slick

oasis made by her calloused fingertips.

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What We Fell Into

This is what we fell into.

That’s why we take the stairs two at a time, we destroy the surveillance cameras, confiscate all the guns aimed at us, shut off all your alarms, and we speak.

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