Passport
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https://doi.org/10.18357/big_r71202522666Abstract
“Passport” is a poem from my most recent book, Kindness Separates Night from Day (Sandorf Passage, 2023). The poem collages scenes of growing up as a child refugee from Bosnia in Croatia with scenes of being a migrant from Croatia to Greece who moved because she fell in love. The poem explores what moving house means and what it can be, contrasting the state of unwilling migration—refuge, migration from fear—with a state of willing migration, migration for love. The poem also explores essential needs—feeding and physical closeness, as well as more abstract needs, such as belonging to a people or place, balancing between the need to be self-sufficient and the need to love. The poem was translated from the original Croatian by Vesna Maric.
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