“Immigration is learning to stretch into a bridge, backward and forward, one limb in each place, learning to hold tight to traditions and customs and names and memories in one hand, and with the other hand let go and lean in to a place you hope will see you for all the beauty that you bring.” PoetryMemoriesBeautyPoemImmigrationCustomsPossibilitiesStretchingTraditionsBridging Book:Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice Source: Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice
“Houses built on bridges are scandals. A bridge wants to not be. If it could choose its shape, a bridge would be no shape, an unspace to link One-place-town to Another-place-town over a river or a road or a tangle of railway tracks or a quarry, or to attach an island to another island or to the continent from which it strains. The dream of a bridge is of a woman standing at one side of a gorge and stepping out as if her job is to die, but when her foot falls it meets the ground right on the other side. A bridge is just better than no bridge but its horizon is gaplessness, and the fact of itself should still shame it. But someone had built on this bridge, drawn attention to its matter and failure. An arrogance that thrilled me.” DreamFailureBridgesArroganceRiverRoadBridgeIslandShapeQuarryContinentBridgingA Bridge DreamingBridge DreamsGaplessnessHouses On BridgesRailway TracksUnspace Book:This Census-Taker Source: This Census-Taker