Fuchsia

Mahtem Shiferraw is a native of Ethiopia and Eritrea and now lives in Los Angeles, California. Her work has appeared in Mandala Journal, Callaloo, Luna Luna Magazine, Cactus Heart Press, Blast Furnace, and Mad Hatters' Review.

Foreword by Kwame Dawes    
Acknowledgments    
Fuchsia    
Origins & Intersections    
E is for Eden    
How to Peel Cactus Fruit    
Something Sleeps in the Mud Beds of the Nile    
Twenty Questions for Your Mother    
While Weeping (Broadway & 5th)     
The Monster    
Talks about Race    
Sleeping with Hyenas    
She says they come at night . . .     
Water    
Polka Dot Dreams    
Blood Disparities    
Synesthesia    
Listro (Shoe-Shiner)     
Pilgrimage to the Nile    
Dinner with Uncles    
In the Lion’s Den    
Daisies & Death    
Something Familiar and Freezing    
A Dead Man’s List    
Dialectics of Death    
Being a Woman    
Rumors    
Visitor    
Broken Men    
Song of the Dead    
Awakening    
Statues    
Kalashnikovs    
The Language of Hair    
Small Tragedies    
4AM    
Dear Abahagoy—    
Effervescence    
Ode to Things Torn    
Plot Line    
A Secret Lull