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Poetry Tuesday
Trinidad & Tobago Is Unfolding Like Layers of Tulle Revealing

Face after face after face.

By Ashley Somwaru
Poetry | Poetry Tuesday
February 22, 2022

The following poem includes mention of violence against women. Please take care while reading.

This is a documentary poem that borrows language from news articles about the deaths of Andrea Bharatt, Ashanti Riley, and women who are still missing in Trinidad and Tobago. See the articles here and here.

Ashley Somwaru is an Indo-Caribbean woman who was born and raised in Queens, New York. She received an MFA in poetry from CUNY Queens College. Somwaru has published a chapbook with Ghostbird Press in 2021 titled Urgent \\ Where The Mind Goes \\ Scattered. Previous work has been published in Lammergeier, Newtown Literary, Solstice Magazine, SWWIM, VIDA Review, and elsewhere.

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