Status Updates From Cast Away: Poems for Our Time

I’m confused

"Our people were running from religious persecution,
drugs and gangs had nothing to do with their migrations,
it was all the word of This Lord or That Lord,
which makes our stories entirely different,
you have no idea what these people believe."

"Camps of refugees exist all over the world
where one clean space to sleep
away from filth and stench
might feel like a miracle."

"O magnificent giant trees, your lives were in vain."

"Two white buttons
not matching
in hot white gravel
dreaming of
shirts."