• We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire.

    Janice Mirikitani: We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire.
    Janice Mirikitani (1995). “We, the Dangerous: New and Selected Poems”, Ten Speed Press