{"id":50302,"date":"2025-01-27T06:22:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T06:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/anthropology\/an-order-for-my-backpack-and-three-stages-of-nowhere-sapiens\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T06:22:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T06:22:30","slug":"an-order-for-my-backpack-and-three-stages-of-nowhere-sapiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=50302","title":{"rendered":"An Order for My Backpack and Three Stages of Nowhere \u2013 SAPIENS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u273d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading__1\"><strong>An Order for My Backpack<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>\u2014For the Public Relations Officer at Guant\u00e1namo Bay, Cuba; July 9, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is my watch,<br \/>this is my phone,<br \/>this is my application for this visit,<br \/>approved &amp; blameless in a clear folder.<\/p>\n<p>My keys,<br \/>my U.S. passport,<br \/>my press pass,<br \/>&amp; water bottle, emptied.<\/p>\n<p>My ticket home,<br \/>my wallet,<br \/>my emergency contact information<br \/>in pencil on a napkin.<\/p>\n<p>And this is a reminder\u2014the list of words<br \/>I\u2019ve promised<br \/>not to utter<br \/>restricted to a yellow Post-it:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"padding-left: 100px\"> hunger strikes <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"padding-left: 200px\"> forced feeding <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"padding-left: 100px\"> detainee deaths <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"padding-left: 200px\"> migrant operations <\/span><\/p>\n<p>closure<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"padding-left: 100px\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intelligence.senate.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/publications\/CRPT-113srpt288.pdf\"><em>The Senate Report on Torture<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>And this, my camera\u2014<br \/>its trust diminished<br \/>since I\u2019ve agreed to delete<br \/>any photo that captures<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"padding-left: 200px\"> locks, gates <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"padding-left: 200px\"> thresholds <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"padding-left: 200px\"> reinforced doors <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"padding-left: 100px\"> the name tags of soldiers <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"padding-left: 200px\"> detainee faces <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"padding-left: 200px\"> detainee bodies <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"padding-left: 200px\"> detainee feet <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"padding-left: 100px\"> <em>anything that might be recognized by one of their mothers<\/em><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"padding-left: 100px\"> &amp; the sea before the horizon. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>And this is <a href=\"https:\/\/uipress.uiowa.edu\/books\/poems-guantanamo\">Falkoff\u2019s book of poems<\/a>\u2014<br \/>the flowers pressed between its pages<br \/><span style=\"padding-left: 200px\"> absorb then repeat <\/span><br \/>lines prisoners composed in cages.<\/p>\n<p>And this you can tell<br \/>is a simple tube of cream.<br \/>It is for the stinging hives, troubled<br \/>witnesses on my thighs &amp; shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>Hives I read closely and cannot appease<br \/>steal my sleep a few days at a time.<br \/><span style=\"padding-left: 100px\"> They testify \u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 outside the orbit<br \/>of soldiers in watchtowers.<\/p>\n<p>And this is my notebook<br \/>filled with lines not prepared to die.<br \/>For words, for hives-turned-welts,<br \/>they move closer to the spine.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Author\u2019s note: \u201cAn Order for My Backpack\u201d was inspired by G\u00fcnter Eich\u2019s poem \u201c<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poetrymagazine\/poems\/52394\/inventory-56d230d30ccb8\"><em>Inventory<\/em><\/a><em>.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u273d An Order for My Backpack \u2014For the Public Relations Officer at Guant\u00e1namo Bay, Cuba; July 9, 2016 This is my watch,this is my phone,this is my application for this visit,approved &amp; blameless in a clear folder. 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