Mahtem Shiferraw, “Beginnings”
Posted in Poetry on Sep 12th, 2018
Beginnings by Mahtem Shiferraw This is not how it begins but how you understand it. I walk many kilometers and find myself to be the same— the same moon hovering over the same, bleached sky, and when the officer calls me it is a name I do not recognize, a self I do not recognize. […]