TE20 Migrant Mosaics

Elise Wilk

EMMA : perhaps I’m just used to people disappearing

you can’t feel anything after a while but I remember the very first time I remember that day I still do itwas in september I had just returned fromcamp and my sandals were covered in dust I remember that the light was dim in the hallway

a bulb had blown and mother said

MARTHA : dagmar has gone to germany for good

MAX : that was the first time emma heard these words

MARTHA : for good

EMMA : I didn’t know then that I would hear them more and more often

about people who had disappeared for a whole year on my way to school I took a detour to dagmar’s block always looking up at her balcony

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