My Father and The Fig Tree
-Father loves figs
-Daughter eats figs
-Fig --> gift of allah
-Father never planted figtrees
-Father speaks arabic
-The last time the father moved to Dallas, Texas
--> Huge fig trees
Blood
-Arabic themed poems?
-About her father?
-Father told her who she really was
-"when we die, we give it back"
-True arab actions
-"Today the headlines clot my blood"
-Fig theme
-Waving of flags --> cultural
-What news does she speak of?
The Words Under the Words
-Grandmother
--> Grapes when sick
-Grandmother's son lost to America
-Grandmother is humbled and used to chaos
-Allah is everywhere
-"Pocket's full of stones"
Two Countries
-Poem about loneliness?
-Skin lonely and drab from not being touched/lost
-Could easily be a spoken word poem
-Rhythm and flow
-Metaphors that relate skin to life
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