How to survive in Detroit #32
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Very simply, war rules apply: Find beauty amidst ugly things; like the smell of Arabic bread amidst factory fumes, like the steady, musical splashing of oily rain around old tires, like the thin band of green and purple iridescence around the neck of a bloated pigeon, like that smile of yours that calls to me even though it is in the middle of your face. [End Page 1232]
Saladin Ahmed, a native of Detroit, is a poet and fantasy fiction writer. He has published poems in The Brooklyn Review and Margie, as well as in such anthologies as Abandon Automobile: Detroit City Poetry and Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry. His fiction has appeared in Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Clockwork Phoenix 2, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. This Brooklyn resident received an MFA in poetry from Brooklyn College. He has received writing fellowships from the University of Michigan and the Bronx Council on the Arts.
