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Laura Pegram
August 31, 2010

(27) by Kelli Stevens Kane

Laura Pegram
August 31, 2010
(27) by Kelli Stevens Kane

there are big silent ovals / on the outside of the air

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Laura Pegram
August 31, 2010

Silence by Janine Mogannam

Laura Pegram
August 31, 2010
Silence by Janine Mogannam

because she is born into a fog that coaxes her hair / her heart heavenward / because in this country of her birth whiteboys spit hate like wads of paper through straws / their eyes tiny as seeds / leaving her choking    voiceless    shrinking /

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Laura Pegram
August 31, 2010

I'm Afroargentina by Jina Ortiz

Laura Pegram
August 31, 2010
I'm Afroargentina by Jina Ortiz

People of the world / I regret to inform you, / I have not been expelled from my country. / I fought on the front lines,  / a shield-bearer in the dirty war / used as a cannon fodder / 

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Laura Pegram
August 31, 2010

At Home in the Modelo Market by Ines P. Rivera Prosdocimi

Laura Pegram
August 31, 2010
At Home in the Modelo Market by Ines P. Rivera Prosdocimi

An old man pulls the wrinkles of his dark face back./ I’m badder than you, / he tells me, handing me my change / for the rooster. My black & white / speckled rooster: My amulet, / like a necklace of herbs, I never told my mother about.

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