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The Emigree
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Lily Mae Pettifer
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Cards (7)
"There
once
was a
country…
I
left
it as a
child
but
my memory
of it is
sunlight-clear
" - Emigree
"The
worst news
I receive of it
cannot break
my
original view
, the
bright
,
filled paperweight.
" - Emigree
"It
may
be at
war
, it may be sick with tyrants,
but I am branded by an
impression of sunlight.”
"That
child’s vocabulary
I
carried
here
like a
hollow doll
, opens and
spills
a
grammar
." - Emigree
"It may by now be a
lie
,
banned
by the
state
but I can’t
get it off my tongue.
It
tastes
of
sunlight.”
- Emigree
“I have
no passport
, there’s
no way back
at all
but my
city comes to me
in its own
white plane.
" - Emigree
"My city
hides behind me.
They
mutter death
,
and my
shadow
falls as
evidence
of
sunlight.”
- Emigree