Green Panda Press
Bree home
a poem
Poem for Certain Lost Boys
by Bree
at home our mothers
ground the food for everybody
here we are dishwashers
we grind the food in
great disposals
8.15.09
archivin around
Gifted With Tongue
was chicken trax
whatsnew
8/22 The Panda is currently working with Akol Ayii Madut, a Lost Boy of Southern Sudan now living in Cleveland who wants to tell his story.
Here is an excerpt from Sleeping With the Sun In His Eyes: A Lost Boy at Home In the World
When Akol first arrived in Cleveland, Ohio, and stepped off the plane, what he saw was everywhere wheat flour. He knew before he came, most American people had plenty to eat. Still, he was truly amazed to discover such surplus. Here, he marveled, people left their wheat flour to just sit, in great piles, everywhere on the ground.
A woman was nearby, working for the airport. He went to her, and leaned in to conspire, in English somewhat wanting:
" I have never seen so much flour. We have people who are starve in my home country. Why dont somebody send some wheat flour back to there?"
"Welcome to America", the woman smiled her brightest at him.
Akol couldnt wait to get outside. Immediately, he knelt down to take some of the wheat flour in his hands.
The flour was freezing cold! It began to melt away, down through his very grip, making everything wet, and cold on contact. His hands, even his knees were cold and wet. This place was unreal. Here in this new city, as it was in a desert mirage, the hulking piles of food disappeared at the touch.
I will be getting used to this, and more, he told himself, and joined up with his entourage. The local director of Catholic Charities, a case-worker and a native-speaker escorted the second Sudanese Lost Boy into cold Cleveland.
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whodat?
2000-2009 Green Panda Press produced chapbooks, broadsides and anthologies of small press poets using household materials. All books were handmade and with an eye to Cleveland greats like d.a. levy , Langston Hughes, Lang, Daniel Thompson, Kryss, r.j.s., Adam Brodsky & Ben Gulyas.
In late spring 2009 many books were lost, never to be reproduced. The Panda turns his third eye forward...
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