We need to embrace immigrants’ stories, not just because most Americans’ ancestors were immigrants, but also because these stories are beautiful human stories that deserve our consideration beyond what may bombard us daily in news headlines.–Ingrid Sometimes I imagine a whole family living in my master bedroom. They’ve been driven out of the camp in Calais […]
Ingrid Keriotis
INGRID KERIOTIS received her MFA from Eastern Washington University. Her poems have recently appeared in the literary magazines Steam Ticket, Flumes, and American River Review. She is also published in the anthology More Than Soil, More Than Sky. She lives in Grass Valley and teaches English to community college students who are inspiration for many of her poems.
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In America, to work to help others is often to be poor: changing diapers on other people’s babies, washing dishes we leave behind in the restaurant tub, helping others’ grandparents down the long hallway that leads to the bathroom. The janitor puts on his uniform at 3 AM so quietly while others in […]
The Poet at Trader Joe’s
She’s singing out in front of the Roseville Trader Joe’s, hair uncombed, eyes drops of black moon. I pause in front of the chrysanthemums. Automatic doors open and close as people file inside. I turn to her, the window of her voice opens, and the parking lot is left behind. Her song is the hum […]