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Lyn Lifshin
Richard Kostelanetz
Karyn M. Bruce
Duane Locke
Michelle Bailat-Jones
Laszlo Slomovits
Kufre Udeme
Michael Lewis-Beck
A. J. Huffman
Nugent Karhu
Fred Wolven
Shutta Crum
Fatmir Terziu
Steven Gulvezan
Kyle Hemmings
Adeeko Ibukun
Chris Cialdella
Paul B. Roth
Fahredin Shehu
Chris Lord
Dike Okoro
Jennifer Burd
Alisa Velaj
Joanie Freeman
Jeton Kelmendi
Richard Luftig
Dzekashu MacViban
Mike Berger
Al Ortolani
Ndue Ukaj
Alan Britt
Jennifer Burd &
Laszlo Slomovits
Diane Giardi
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Do you understand how heart
-might squeeze
The entire blood it possessed? While
Juvenile breath could still warm
The mystical indifference of the senile
The coldness of the snake curved
Over the bent backspin
The deportation list is prepared by
The local perpetrators while
The killing recipe--somewhere
in Belgrade in 1999.
Now I may freely utter numbers
800,000 Kosovars expelled carefully
Out of border
Macedonia built camps and it was
not Auschwitz
It all reminds Biblical exodus
But the Jews we are not.
The Illyrian blood still circulates
In our veins and the language that
Foretold Socrates his wisdom
At the Delphi Oracle still speaks
Volumes to the civilized world
Do I have to be a poet or simply
A world inhabitant to say
"I'm a part of the same gravity
But my peak reaches the whiteness of
-the clouds"
Ask any lady with the crinkle dark skin
marked heavily with the crimson dots
what was "I" a decade ago and they
shall all in unison say: Once you were a Jew
before being Illyrian, Albanian, Kosovar
but now you'll die as poet!
Who would expect a better death!!!
Fahredin Shehu, Prishtina, Kosovo