Photograph by Jesse Williams

Notes on being homeless:

1. from war, working class, thought of summer
2. or wind, hard, delayed, born into the desert
3. I am moving from the place I was born.
4. There are no faces like yours in this country.
5. Great Depression, alien, extra cash for more land
6. conspiracies, ancestrally, city, recent large arrival
7. or a memory of time before him, and you, children
8. I arrive gawking, colonial memory, lucky internet
9. I forgot that I did not want to go, of music computer
10. in a heat wave, atone, truer, couldn’t hold
11. I forgot offshore detention, never sacrificed
12. They fly, in a heat wave, proud, am arriving more
13. and lesser crises: how you won’t give up stolen land
14. generational sin, Sometimes you may never see
15. how you refuse to go anywhere else, snow
16. on the mountains, backyard half pipe, America
17. how the blinking lights, goodbye to the sky
18. or return, return, wanting something else to hold