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  Andrew Hamilton

Poetry 

"Immigration" originally appeared in Crack the Spine, ​and "Isolation" originally appeared in Emerge Literary Journal in slightly altered forms. These two poems are featured in the + Polarity— chapbook:
Immigration
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Losses leave vacuums
siphoning mind from matter
in cavities of foreign dreams
deferred to domestic dust....
nerves drawling alphabets--
new languages to learn,
reciting dead names
of unrecorded children
mirrored in classrooms
ad libbing native dialects
which roll off the tongue
like tramontane landslides--
jagged Alps that Balkanize
the mouth of an executive
who hides behind the profane
wall of an alien reflection.









Isolation
 
They found my father weeping
at a stranger’s vacant doorstep.
He was searching for Piqua, Ohio,
only he was in Seattle, Washington.
 
I imagine the wrinkled lobes
of his brain cracking crystallized
shards that slide down his spine
like memories of a melted glacier.
 
If only I could slip into his mind
and watch his Mount Saint Helen
flatten into snow-dusted crops of Ohio,
where he roams in search of her alone.

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