In the American Grain
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In the American Grain - AAVV
© 2021 Europa Edizioni s.r.l. | Roma
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ISBN 979-12-201-xxxx-x
I edizione gennaio 2021
Finito di stampare nel mese di gennaio 2021
presso Rotomail Italia S.p.A. - Vignate (MI)
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In the American Grain
Threa Almontaser
Born and raised in New York, Threa Almontaser is a Yemeni American poet and scholar. Her forst poetry collection, The Wild Fox of Yemen, won the Walt Whitman award of the Academy of American Poets.
Heritage Emissary
As designated translator, I taste saffron, gold coins,
a slight burning. Since I’ve returned, there has been less
of me in English. Though return always meant measuring
the earth’s door, tongue ozoned and still learning
to stretch between here and home. Sah, my native
speech is like a window sash pulled up wa down.
Sah, I shift phrases without thought. Classmates tilt
at my returned self like I grew horns, can shoot bombs
out my ass. Like they want to dump me in ma’a,
watch me float like a witch. When I Arabic my way
towards them, they pat my back in case I hack mucus
wa dem. What do you call a word the mouth has forgotten
to push out, stuck by the tonsil’s entrance, squirming
to be sound? Speech becomes a slagged pot I bang crude beats on. I long to play a song that doesn’t terrorize,
a song that’s understood. The mushkila is I am a surging current of feared language. Words have stopped arriving easily. Was it Rumi who said silence is the language
of God and all else is poor translation? I am not mathaluhum. I can’t properly translate myself,
so a settled lake floats my tongue hush. I part
need I steam senseless of shrouds spout and lips my
don’t I proof need I with accent my sink to dictionary a
.sense make still can I that, cooing blurred a like sound
I lie about my D in Algebra. Turn, She daydreams
during lessons into, Qaluu I pay attention to detail.
Turn, She’s suspended for fighting into, I’m such a good
student, they gave me a day off. Each rephrasing
Pinocchio’s my nose. I am out of breath from so much code-switching, crunching the sand it leaves my teeth.
When threatened with a call home, I shrug, Taib.
Go ahead. They’ll say, yes yes, but won’t yafhumun,
will ask me about it later so I can twist it. At dinner,
Baba tells a story of his childhood in Yemen.
About catching a wild fox with his cousin–—Arabic
the medium through which his body can