Leila Ired Poems

The Dunce -Translation

He says no with his head
but he says yes with his heart... more »

Paris At Night -Translation

Three matches lit one by one in the night
The first to see your face in its entirety... more »

Juxtaposition

They say,
between black and white there is gray in choices
perhaps brown or mulatto or mestizo in people... more »

Immigration Policy

Why not
eliminate the outsiders?
and get this country
back the way it used to be?... more »

New Age Feminism

I like being angry.
I like the wolf rasping at my larynx
the way she snarls and snaps at the back of my throat.
I may mute and muzzle her... more »

Crosswalk

If the world were a crosswalk
two straight white lines
telling us
to live our lives... more »

Motivations / Goals

For my sister.

It is not for you
the cursing praise... more »

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