Living with the Children of Your Children
Juan Mobili
When you are about to forsake them,
you fall in love with them again,
just as you are checking motels’ availability,
you surrender and put your suitcase away,
even when the screaming may compel you
to confess crimes you did not commit,
their laughter erases the pain of your incarceration.
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Juan Pablo Mobili was born in Buenos Aires, and adopted by New York. His poems appeared in The American Journal of Poetry, The Worcester Review, and The Banyan Review, Monotiths (Australia) and Impspired (UK), among many others. His work received an Honorable Mention from the International Human Rights Art Festival, and has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net, in 2020 and 2021. His chapbook, “Contraband,” will be published in 2022.
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