"i traveled the world. it was fine." by Samiya Bashir

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i traveled the world. it was fine.


Samiya Bashir

::  lists  ::

genres
not-genres

survival
surveillance

 

::   lists  ::

bath salts
meds
nail stuff
grapefruit juice
keys
protein
tequila
other keys
gin
grapefruit juice
other other keys
hair

 

::   lists   ::

things i won’t be answering:
emails
voice mails
really any mail without a stamp
phone calls
call outs
call ins
ungrounded theories
anything that begins “can i touch...”

 

::  states  ::

potentially
pointless

surveillance
survival

 

::  states  ::

selfish
she invites
all the curses
(no curse for you!)

 

::  states  ::

how are we all so busy now
again

 

::  lists  ::

my name
the way my name
is said

 

yawn

Copyright © 2021 by Samiya Bashir. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on July 2, 2021, by the Academy of American Poets.

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“I wonder where lines might be drawn between our digital and material selves—word and flesh / photo-tag and skin-tag. Can we, anymore, break free of our machines to locate or resuscitate our bodies? Whether we are ever post-pandemic or not, what remains of our ability to be—alone or together—in public? This poem refuses even these rhetorical questions. To bridge the before-times, the in-times, the end-times, the now-times, the what-is-times, this poem remembers movement and static both. It coughs the sputtering fragments it finds of leftover language. It exhausts itself easily.”
Samiya Bashir

Samiya Bashir is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Field Theories (Nightboat Books, 2017), winner of the 2018 Oregon Book Award’s Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry. Her other honors include the Rome Prize in Literature, the Pushcart Prize, and the Oregon Arts & Culture Council’s Individual Artist Fellowship, among others. A poet, writer, librettist, performer, and multimedia poetry maker, she is an Associate Professor at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.


Field Theories
(Nightboat Books, 2017)

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