Picture of Girl and Small Boy (Burij, Gaza, 2014) I would like to tell her not to wear such flimsy shoes,that rubble contains the whole spectrum of knowableand unknowable dangers: sheets of metal ripped to knife edge, live wires, bloated arms reaching for light.
Migration and exile are significant themes in Lotfi's poems. Born in New Orleans to an Iranian father and an American mother, she moved with her family to Tehran while she was still an infant, but left with one suitcase and an hour's notice at the onset of the Iranian revolution.
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