Exit West Found Poems by Zachary Lowe https://padlet.com/zachary_a_lowe1/jk9e12wkd584 Close Reading for Creative Writing en-us 2020-02-11 12:48:53 UTC 2020-02-27 05:54:06 UTC hello@padlet.com Leaving the City: Hope and Hesitance https://padlet.com/zachary_a_lowe1/jk9e12wkd584/wish/443661168 Saeed desperately wanted to leave his city
He thought he would leave it 
Only temporarily, intermittently

Nadia was possibly even more feverishly keen to depart,
Her nature was such that the prospect of something new,
Was at its most basic level   exciting to her.
But she was haunted by worries too.

Both of them, though,
Had no doubt that they would  leave if given the chance.
]]> 2020-02-11 13:58:41 UTC https://padlet.com/zachary_a_lowe1/jk9e12wkd584/wish/443661168 Home https://padlet.com/zachary_a_lowe1/jk9e12wkd584/wish/443674421 Desperately wanted to leave

Leave it only temporarily, intermittently, never once and for all

Home 

He would come back 

]]> 2020-02-11 14:15:15 UTC https://padlet.com/zachary_a_lowe1/jk9e12wkd584/wish/443674421 Potential Departure zachary_a_lowe1 https://padlet.com/zachary_a_lowe1/jk9e12wkd584/wish/443675156 The prospect of something new:
A looming potential

the loss of a home,
no less. 

Change is
at its most basic level
exciting--

at the mercy of strangers,
subsistent on handouts --

But also: cages us
like vermin.

Still: "You must go."

No doubt, if given 
a chance.]]> 2020-02-11 14:16:11 UTC https://padlet.com/zachary_a_lowe1/jk9e12wkd584/wish/443675156 The End That Justifies The Means https://padlet.com/zachary_a_lowe1/jk9e12wkd584/wish/443680540 Saeed and Nadia 

Leave the city 

Not temporarily, but once and for all

Loss of a home

Haunted by worries 

Dependence

Mercy of strangers

Caged in pens like vermin

Though, whatever their misgiving, they had no doubt they would leave if given the chance.

]]> 2020-02-11 14:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/zachary_a_lowe1/jk9e12wkd584/wish/443680540 LEAVING https://padlet.com/zachary_a_lowe1/jk9e12wkd584/wish/443680774 he did not wish to do this -
To leave the place where he had spent a life with her

"You two must go, but I will not come."

when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind

Saeed would not, after this night that was just beginning,

spend another night with his father again.]]> 2020-02-11 14:22:41 UTC https://padlet.com/zachary_a_lowe1/jk9e12wkd584/wish/443680774 Leaving Home https://padlet.com/zachary_a_lowe1/jk9e12wkd584/wish/444037817 Desperately wanted to leave, he always had

Leave it only temporarily, intermittently, never once and for all

Deeply sad, amounting to the loss of a home

She was more feverishly keen to depart

Prospect of something new, of change

Exciting

Haunted by worries, revolving around dependence

Both had no doubt that they would leave if given the chance

]]> 2020-02-11 22:07:49 UTC https://padlet.com/zachary_a_lowe1/jk9e12wkd584/wish/444037817 Mother https://padlet.com/zachary_a_lowe1/jk9e12wkd584/wish/444359414 What could possibly make him want to stay:

Your mother is here.

Mother is gone.

Not for me.

And this was true in a way, for the past offered more to him.]]> 2020-02-12 14:46:09 UTC https://padlet.com/zachary_a_lowe1/jk9e12wkd584/wish/444359414 Worries About Leaving https://padlet.com/zachary_a_lowe1/jk9e12wkd584/wish/444721319 In his imagination he had thought he would leave it only temporarily, intermittently  but he doubted he would come back.
This looming departure struck him as deeply sad, as amounting to the loss of a home, no less, of his home.

Feverishly keen to depart, the prospect of something new, of change, it's exciting. But worries too
Worries, revolving around dependence and leaving their country, caged in pens like vermin. 


]]> 2020-02-12 23:20:19 UTC https://padlet.com/zachary_a_lowe1/jk9e12wkd584/wish/444721319 To Leave Home? 360371 https://padlet.com/zachary_a_lowe1/jk9e12wkd584/wish/444738112 Saeed desperately wanted to leave,
Only temporarily, intermittently, he did believe

Leaving friends, family, and home
Left to wander and roam,

For Nadia, it was the prospect of something new,
But she was haunted by worries too 

Would they be encountering greater dangers?
Or Would they be at the mercy of strangers?

Yet, they would leave if given the chance,
Yes, without a doubt, not even a second glance,

A note under the door, an agent it was from,
Ruined by Saeed's father: "You two must go, but I will not come."



]]> 2020-02-13 00:22:24 UTC https://padlet.com/zachary_a_lowe1/jk9e12wkd584/wish/444738112 https://padlet.com/zachary_a_lowe1/jk9e12wkd584/wish/444741178 Circumstances were not straightforward

but in his imagination he had thought it different

he would come back

like vermin

 comfortable with misgivings, chance, apartment doors

]]> 2020-02-13 00:34:01 UTC https://padlet.com/zachary_a_lowe1/jk9e12wkd584/wish/444741178 Fear Haiku https://padlet.com/zachary_a_lowe1/jk9e12wkd584/wish/444741212 the loss of a home,
She was haunted by worries;
Caged in pens like vermin
]]> 2020-02-13 00:34:10 UTC https://padlet.com/zachary_a_lowe1/jk9e12wkd584/wish/444741212 Passage https://padlet.com/zachary_a_lowe1/jk9e12wkd584/wish/444811968 If given the chance,
The loss of a home,
Intermittently,
Never once and for all,
Scattering-
Something new,
Haunted.
Subsistent
Of change, 
Caged.
Had to go, had to stay:
Forever.

]]> 2020-02-13 04:42:06 UTC https://padlet.com/zachary_a_lowe1/jk9e12wkd584/wish/444811968 Leaving home 2 https://padlet.com/zachary_a_lowe1/jk9e12wkd584/wish/444964914 Like sacrificial lambs, we make our way to the last class.

Don’t look at the road so often,
We won’t return from here,
All day we tacked and tacked between the South Head and the North;
All day we hauled the frozen sheets, and got no further forth;
All day as cold as charity, in bitter pain and dread,
For very life and nature we tacked from head to head.
We were leaving home,
To meet with God, to have a chance, and to leave the chaos behind.  


]]> 2020-02-13 13:43:16 UTC https://padlet.com/zachary_a_lowe1/jk9e12wkd584/wish/444964914 Leaving home 3 https://padlet.com/zachary_a_lowe1/jk9e12wkd584/wish/451209937 A chance appears to leave
but it wouldn't be a breeze
for it was a one way trip
and there would be havoc
Mixed emotions arise 
between Nadia and Saeed
But they both knew 
This is what they need. 

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