by David Izu
Internal refugees were imprisoned on a lake bed from where the waters had fled leaving mollusks low and dry entombed under blankets of dirt An imprisoned one above excavated bitty shells below arranged the containers of emptiness into the shape of a heart backed by a needle a pin to bridge a pair of lives in abeyance Two to float better than one when this parched blight ends waters are found and we begin again refugees no more
About the contributor: David Izu is a San Francisco Bay Area-based artist. His mother was incarcerated at Poston, AZ; his father escaped imprisonment in a family caravan to Utah, where he was drafted to serve in the U.S. Army in Europe. Dave has taught at Stanford, UC Berkeley, the SF Art Institute and the California College of the Arts. His work is in the permanent collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art as well as other institutions.
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