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Safia Jama is a Cave Canem graduate fellow, born to a Somali father and an Irish-American mother in Queens, New York. Her manuscript was a semi-finalist in the Pleiades Press Editors Prize for Poetry.
The seals are synchronized swimming again, like sad old ladies
in frilly bathing caps
My grandma nicknamed me Lemonade because I was yellow and ridged and buttery as
popcorn in that yellow sweater
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