Living One Day Is Easy, Living a Life Is Hard: A Sudanese Refugee in Sicily

The trauma of the refugee is often a persistent condition as they attempt to fit into their new home, often unwanted and without employment, while coping with the trauma of arrival and the loss of sense of self and the familiarity of a homeland. These poems attempt to explicate some aspects of Muhammad’s experiences in Sicily. Using Muhammad’s own words, I have chosen poetic inquiry to “represent actual experiences, episode, epiphanies, misfortune, pleasures in such a way that others can experience and feel them.”