Mary Farrell, Ph.D., is a retired professor of English literature at the Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain. She is a poet and essayist, and among her writings is a contribution on liminality and film to The Liminal Loop: Astonishing Stories of Discovery and Hope (2022).
Immigrants
It’s neither here nor there.
A simple expression of irrelevancy,
yet, when it’s said about immigrants
it tells a different story.
Bureaucracy is thicker
here than there,
but the sauces are thinner.
Hours were, of course, more sensibly distributed
there.
Nevertheless, time expands more freely
here.
Then there is the climate:
there
it prodded one’s productivity.
Here
it lets laziness take hold.
And on and on until the immigrant,
like Janus looking behind and ahead,
is neither here nor there,
between,
somewhere in-between.
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