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The Someday Fantasy

 Posted by Peter Korchnak / American Robotnik  New World, New Life  No Responses »
Jul 072012
 
The Someday Fantasy

I am two. One looks back, the other turns to the sea. The nape of my neck seethes with good-byes and my breast with yearning. —Gabriela Mistral in Salman Akhtar, “Immigration and Identity: Turmoil, Treatment, and Transformation”

 Tagged with: emigration, immigration-experience, nostalgia

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