Why don’t you go home

they ask the immigrant

after all that went wrong?

Back to

health care

passport

security

Family

the Yemenite rabbi said

is a husband

children

not

parents

a brother, sister-in-law

Does a niece count as offspring?

Make a chart, the neighbor said:

Why stay?

I want to

I left

G-d promised

land

blessings

a name

I am the earth

            One grain of dust

I am the sea

            One drop of water

I am the sky

            One star