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The Significance of a Dress
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Poems informed by and immersed in politics. Everything has significance beyond the surface. Beautiful, hair-raising words and form.
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The Doctor from Aleppoās Book Keeping
Injuries need fixing
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No matter whom they belong to.
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They are not anti- or pro-regime.
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People feel protective of their tribe.
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One side blacklisted me.
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it was dangerous to support
the other side.
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I had to flee.
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My family needed safety.
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The boat sank.
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Water feels safer than land right now.
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Eleven hours my one focus
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Not drowning is an art, a drive
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to keep my head above water.
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I was rescued to try again.
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I had to try again.
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I failed and failed again.
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I built a network of connections.
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People trust doctors.
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Fifteen contacts find clients.
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I pay gangs to run the boats.
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I could buy boats.
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Iāve sent eight thousand people
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I bribe the Turkish police.
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No sinking or drownings so far.
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Turkey to Italy or Greece
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costs four thousand five hundred euros.
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Onward travel to Germany
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plus two thousand euros or
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onward travel to Scandinavia
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plus four thousand euros.
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Destination isnāt my concern.
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I didnāt want to charge.
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Bribes, boats, costs mount up.
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I need to feed my own family.
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The UN could do this.
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Let people travel legally.
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If I stay in Syria, Iāll be killed.
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If I travel,
Iāve a 50% chance of survival.
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I send my son to safety.
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I dream of making a home again.
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First published in UK 2020 by Arachne Press Limited
100 Grierson Road, London SE23 1NX
www.arachnepress.com
Ā© Emma Lee 2020
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Print: 978-1-909208-83-4
ePub: 978-1-909208-98-8
mobi: 978-1-909208-99-5
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- I Saw Life Jackets Left on the Beach
- Stories from The Jungle
- Bridal Dresses in Beirut
- Dismantling The Jungle
- Outside the Photograph
- The Significance of a Dress
- A Boyās Text Message in Headlines
- Iām Here, Wherever that is
- Uniforms Contain People
- Diary from Holloway Jail February 1907
- Reptiles in Texas
- His Mother was Told to Leave Him Out to Die
- How Do you Rehearse for This?
- Saving Grace
- Standing on Ice
- The Staircase of Knives
- The Quilt with 598 Squares
- He Did/She Did
- Todayās Lesson Misses the Target
- How Rapunzel Ends
- Gone Midnight and I Needed to Press Reset
- Wishing Not to be Stalled
- The Landmarks Change When You Walk Home
- Icon in Red (#C0362C)
- Put a Spell on Those February Blues
- When Your Nameās Not Smith
- The Sea Remembers
- Where No one Operates the Lights
- How a Dress Lost its Sparkle
- An Elephant in Atlantic City
- The Doctor from Aleppoās Book Keeping
- Copyright