My Body is Not My Body: Four Tanforan Poems

by Kane Maida

Japanese characters that translate as "There is a rumor that we will soon be moved to our final internment camp."

(There is a rumor that we will soon be moved to our final internment camp.)

A row of Japanese characters (kanji), translated in the text.
Waga mi nite waga mi ni aranu kinō kyō ochiyuku saki mo sadaka naraneba
An elderly Japanese man wearing a suit and hat is handled by hands of white men. One hand holds for inspection the identification tag attached to the old man's lapel.
Tagged for relocation, 1942. Dorothea Lange, War Relocation Authority.
My body is not my body
not yesterday or today
so long as it is undecided
where we will end up
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