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In this episode of Elixir, Helen is talking to Meron Berhanu about her poetry. Meron is from London with Ethiopian heritage.
Meron Berhanu
by Meron Berhanu
Alien
Green backpack, loaded with her life.
A tiny woman standing underneath a building –
So colossal in its whiteness
it must have a heartbeat.
The gravity of the red white and
blue weigh down her footsteps, pulls
her into its orbit. Her motherland is not
a place anymore. It is something she carries –
a wound she tends to, every night.
But right now, she is here.
In this country, in this embassy –
in front of a man behind a screen and
says I’m ready to live. In which she means –
I want to prove that I can.
by Meron Berhanu
https://www.bedfordsquarereview.com/meron-berhanu
by Meron Berhanu