Deja Vu

When a gypsy begging on the metro adds that she fled warring Yugoslavia, wallets open that usually wouldn’t.  Not Andreas Mann’s… nobody learns from our mass murder, our self-destruction.…He glimpses the gypsy, her calico skirt, remembers an almost-lover, a survivor’s daughter, her bare shoulders, naked back: so vulnerable, so strong.

Author of the article

Sharon Coleman is a fifth generation Northern Californian with a penchant for languages and their entangled word roots. Her poetry and CNF appear in Your Impossible Voice, Faultline, and The Ana. She co-curates the reading series Lyrics & Dirges, and co-directs the Berkeley Poetry Festival. Her books include Paris Blinks, nano-fiction and Half Circle, poetry. She received a Luso-American Fellowship for the Disquiet Literary Conference in Lisbon (2018), and the Brereton scholarship for the Napa Valley Writers Conference (2021).