Blackbirdan online journal of literature and the artsFall 2020  Vol. 19 No. 2
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For His Wife

I am your boy
drowning in this country, who doesn’t know

the word for drowning
and yells

I am diving for the last time!  

From Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky. Reprinted with permissions from Graywolf Press.


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