Somebody Loves You by Mona Arshi Holland Park Press in the period of new-found

in the period of new-found freedom after the fall of communism

swiftly deleted texts and briefly snatched weekends

he was United States Poet Laureate in 2010-11

Moving between that America and her present 'Home from Home’ in Ireland

Somebody Loves You by Mona Arshi Holland Park Press in the period of new-foundA teacher asked me a question, and I opened my mouth as a sort of formality but closed it softly, knowing with perfect certainty that nothing would ever come out again. Ruby gives up talking at a young age. Her mother isnt always there to notice; she comes and goes and goes and comes, until, one day, she doesnt. Silence becomes Rubys refuge, sheltering her from the weather of her mothers mental illness and a pressurized suburban atmosphere. Plangent,