- Code Green: Evacuation
A long look from the half open door from your half open face
a long look before any words come Yo, come through.
Please come back you mean dog don’t make me beg you mean
in my translation please
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and when I do I glimpse you changed, shoes on waiting. But trying your best
to wear the door, keeping it only eye open until I beg to come in.
But I came back (—by on my way elsewhere) to say I wasn’t coming back.
I couldn’t or I can’t. [End Page 886]
Ian Williams, who received his Ph. D. at the University of Toronto, is an assistant professor of ethnic American literature and culture at Fitchburg State College in Massachusetts. He is co-editor of Misunderstanding Magazine, a Toronto-based literary journal.