Safia Jama

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.

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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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