My Body is Not My Body: Four Tanforan Poems

A row of Japanese characters (kanji), translated in the text.
Umagoya no sumai naredomo hana uete kazaru kokoro ni namida nijiminu
Though my living space
is a stable,
I grow flowers
to decorate it –
my heart blurred by tears.
Four Japanese American children stand in front of a newly planted garden in front of a barrack (recently converted from a horse stall).
Children in front of the gardens and barracks, formerly horse stalls, where families from San Francisco lived. Tanforan Assembly Center, CA. Dorothea Lange for the WRA, June 6, 1942.
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