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  • It’s terrible what’s happening there
  • Julie Danho (bio)

people say, if it comes up I’m Syrianwhen my daughter mentions her “Sito”or I’m microwaving my kibbe at work.And it is. But I don’t need to tell you.You’ve heard the numbers of the dead.You’ve seen the mothers turned grey.I never know what to say because I’m Syrian-American, and I know only as much as youof the city that bombs are skinningdown to concrete and bone, where childrenare sleeping alone in the rubble, where Danhosand Nourys and Imondis are still livingif they haven’t fled or been killed.When my great-grandparents left Aleppo,they carried their stories like goldsewn inside clothes, but no one sincehas pulled hard at the stitches. Somy horror is that of a woman who looksat the sky and expects only blue—a luxurymy ancestors passed down to me. [End Page 11]

Julie Danho

Julie Danho’s chapbook, Six Portraits, won the 2014 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition.

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