Diaspora Ocean by Tina Ehsanipour
Poetry
Diaspora Ocean
by Tina Ehsanipour
“she was showing me the way home, / teaching me how to stretch self across space”
Diaspora Ocean
by Tina Ehsanipour
I used to be afraid of the ocean,
how it had no beginning or end,
how it held so much I couldn’t see
Until I realized
she was showing me the way home,
teaching me how to stretch self across space
and refuse to be bound by land
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tina Ehsanipour is an Iranian-born, California-raised writer, high school Creative Writing teacher, and school librarian. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Nowruz Journal, South Writ Large Magazine, In Short–The Podcast, Five Minutes, as well as on stage with Golden Thread Productions. She has essays forthcoming in the anthology Nonwhite and Woman (Woodhall Press, Sept 2022). Tina lives with her husband and twins in the Bay Area. Find her on Twitter @TinaEhsanipour. More at tinaehsanipour.com.
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