Dear Immigrants | Sevgili Göçmenler

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Sevgili Göçmenler


Göçmenlerin çantalarından

kutsanmamış göz yuvaları gibi

şekerler dökülüyor, ayaklarımızın dibine.


Ve biz tam Hoş Geldin diyecekken

susuyoruz nedense

ağaç köklerini toprağından söker gibi mesela

ya da yağmur suyunu geldiği yere geri gönderircesine

kilitlercesine sevgili göçmenlerimizi, dışarıya

ta ki farkedene dek

aslında kendimizi kilitlediğimizi

küçüldükçe küçülen hücrelere.





Dear Immigrants

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Elif Sezen, born in Melbourne in 1981, grew up both here and in Izmir, Turkey. She settled in Melbourne in 2007. Also an interdisciplinary visual artist, she writes original poetry in English and in Turkish. In 2014 she published a Turkish translation of Ilya Kaminsky’s acclaimed book Dancing in Odessa; her own first work in Turkish, an experimental mix of poetry and prose Gece Düşüşü (‘Fall.Night.’) was published in 2012. Her collection of poems Universal Mother was recently published by GloriaSMH Press. She holds a PhD in Fine Arts from Monash University.

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