Gambito, Sarah 2022
I was so afraid. I couldn’t escape it. It was bigger than me and 3 horned. It dashed for me and missed and missed again. It leapt for me in my skirt. I was younger than it. It opened its parent mouth and I could die trying.
– Sarah Gambito, “Citizenship [I was so afraid.]”
Watch Sarah Gambito’s 2022 reading with Joseph Legaspi at the Chicago Poetry Center:
Sarah Gambito begins at 30:36 minutes.
How much our hands are God’s
to be running fingers over braille cities.
We are this hand pushed through our womb.
Weeping with each other’s blood in our eyes.
I dreamed that I slept with the light on.
– Sarah Gambito, “Yolanda: A Typhoon”
Watch Sarah Gambito read for the PAWA Arkipelago Reading Series:
Read Sarah Gambito’s interview with Porter House Review:
https://porterhousereview.org/articles/with-our-mouths-open-an-interview-with-sarah-gambito-on-food-and-lyrical-sweetness/
