Not one language but a hyphen between
Neither here nor there
– but the middle –
something only definable
and discernible
through the experience
of both here
and there
and everything that it means.
This duality becomes her
It maps her.
She is a foreigner, they say.
Her command of the language is impressive.
But foreign.
She is odd.
What they don’t know:
she has become a foreigner
both here
and
there.
arizona-me 