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An Embroidery of Old Maps and New
Angela Costi
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An Embroidery of Old Maps and New
Angela Costi
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I can see how I carry Yiayia's war in the ample dunes of my belly, the moment she smelt the guns, she pinched the candle's wick, gathered the startled shadows of her children, flung my baby-mother onto her backand sprinted towards the neutral moonâMigration and the memories of women's traditions are woven throughout these poems. Angela Costi brings the world of Cyprus to Australia. Her mother encounters animosity on Melbourne's trams as Angela learns to thread words in ways that echo her grandmother's embroidery. Here are poems that sing their way across the seas and map histories.
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From Bondi to Kyrenia
She watched this sea
with its loud waves
demanding the surfer
to almost fall off the board
like she did in the boat
as she stretched to catch
the last apricot
the crew member threwâ
there were many hands reaching
for that taste of sunshineâ
her body flung
against the boatâs spine
as Poseidon opened his mouth
expecting a feed.
Arrival
You stand in front of glass,
it opens without knocking,
they have women unarmed
sitting at counters, smiling,
âHello, how may I help you?â
They pay people to help you.
There are words you must hold like blankets in snow
âhuman rightsâ
âdiscriminationâ.
You repeat them as third language,
they feel hot on your tongue,
they make you remember a child with broken teeth,
remember a woman with torn womb,
the man eating the dirt.
Here, you can say them
again and again
to many strangers
who will take your story
like a startled baby.
In fits and starts, you come to know words
as soldiers standing at check points
âallegationâ
âevidenceâ.
Your story climbs their walls and waits for you
outside their office
knowing
you cannot open the hearts of words
written as law.
Refugee Aerobics
Running feet, marching hearts, waving arms,
they jump, they queue, they plunge
and squeeze into the triangleâs longest line.
They are fed up with hunger
ready to barter their sinews and bones
for our fat and muscle.
They donât know the moves
yet they know how to climb onto each otherâs backs
to build that stack of body upon body
then get that one person at the top
to stretch beyond reach for the highest note,
hold steady when told, wait, still wait
to learn the music
before the words.
Land Mines
She tiptoed through her body,
carefully slid down the medulla
to walk like a whisper,
each step made without an explosion
brought a victorâs muffled cry.
She asked her doctor, âWhat war did I incubate?â
Cyprus, Afghanistan, Korea, Cambodia
40,000, 55,000 each country growing people
without arms, legs, and still they continue
to gather their wood by that roadside,
go to school on the path with the new rubber foot.
El Salvador, Vietnam, Angola, Syria
continue to work, marry, have children
cook with their elbow, write with their teeth.
A schwannoma
is built to blast injury
with five trauma triggers:
activator, fuse, charge,
a power source and a body.
âDonât step on a frayed nerve!â
She is told there are twelve,
she has made it to the thoracic
without incident,
if she goes further to the outlying
grey swamp, branch roots,
they are there, hunched in anticipation,
she knows their tactics.
She is lucky her war is secret:
she has her clothes to hide
the scar that split her back
to deactivate bomb thirteen,
her stomach scar that cut
the blast of bomb fourteen.
She has planted warning signs:
âMust avoid the right sideâs peripheral nerves.â
Tonight, she will cook, read, go to bed
and sleep only on her left.
Heavy
I can see how I carry Yiayiaâs war
in the ample dunes of my belly,
the moment she smelt the guns,
she pinched the candleâs wick,
gathered the startled shadows of her children,
flung my baby-mother onto her back
and sprinted towards the neutral moonâ
that moment seeded my greed
for savaged meat, for blankets of oil
unfurled on potato and rice,
my inheritance grew by mouthfuls.
I feast on their hunger to make them proud,
so does my mother, she was spared war,
was given depression to carry
in the nerve-threaded bowls of her thighs,
arms and breasts, she reaches for the largesse
of orc...
Table des matiĂšres
- Cover
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- From Bondi to Kyrenia
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
Normes de citation pour An Embroidery of Old Maps and New
APA 6 Citation
Costi, A. (2021). An Embroidery of Old Maps and New (1st ed.). Spinifex Press. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/2984430/an-embroidery-of-old-maps-and-new-pdf (Original work published 2021)
Chicago Citation
Costi, Angela. (2021) 2021. An Embroidery of Old Maps and New. 1st ed. Spinifex Press. https://www.perlego.com/book/2984430/an-embroidery-of-old-maps-and-new-pdf.
Harvard Citation
Costi, A. (2021) An Embroidery of Old Maps and New. 1st edn. Spinifex Press. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/2984430/an-embroidery-of-old-maps-and-new-pdf (Accessed: 15 October 2022).
MLA 7 Citation
Costi, Angela. An Embroidery of Old Maps and New. 1st ed. Spinifex Press, 2021. Web. 15 Oct. 2022.