A Gift from Zhino, the Kurdish Translator at Kara Tepe Refugee Camp: pt. III.
by Marianne Peel
III.
And on that morning
Zhino, the Kurdish translator,
brought her mother into the shop.
Wanted to show me this matriarch
who had clutched the side of the raft
with all her strength and stamina
as they crossed the treacherous sea
between Turkey and Lesvos.
And on that morning
this matriarch would lay on a gurney
while the surgeon carved a tumor
out of her brain.
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