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Isako Isako - Mia Ayumi Malhotra
To My Many Mothers, Issei and Nisei
Praise be to beef liver stew, to gravy biscuits
and home-baked bread, to women
in work pants and suspenders who worked like dogs
in the packing shed, up to elbows
in rose clippings. You fed us well, O goddesses
of goulash and green beans, of Sunday dinners
wrangled from the coop. For penny money
and seamstressing, praise. For parsnips
and sweet potatoes, praise. Even for the years lost
to sharecropping and strawberries, hallelujah.
You worked until the final hour then rose
three days later, baby squalling on your hip,
back to breaking canes, clipping hooks,
hustling the men through lunch hour.
No breaks, boys. Hallelujah to Pond’s Cold Cream,
to curling rags and church bento socials.
Praise to the nursery truck revving in the morning,
the clank of steel pipes and boiler-
house rumble. All glory to the Berkeley streetcar
and Key Route electric train, the smokestacks
of Richmond and foggy peaks of San Francisco.
And because they’re what taught us to praise,
glory to the roses run wild, the packing shed
left to cobweb. Praise to the crowded horse stalls
and half-built barracks of Rohwer, Arkansas,
dusty sheets and muffled nights of Block 9-9-C,
100. Sakai, Chu. 102. Sakai, Ruby. 103. Sakai, Kazue.
O praise to the camp midwives, the Nisei girls
shooting hoops and swatting birdies when their mothers
weren’t looking. And to the college-bound coed
who crossed the country, camp release papers
in hand, hallelujah. Her truth marches on.
WESTERN DEFENSE COMMAND AND FOURTH ARMY WARTIME CIVIL CONTROL ADMINSTRATION
Presidio of San Francisco, California
May 3, 1942
INSTRUCTIONS
TO ALL PERSONS OF
JAPANESE
ANCESTRY
Living in the Following Area:
All of that portion of the County of Alameda, State of California, within the boundary beginning at the point where the southerly limits of the City of Oakland meet San Franscico Bay; thence easterly and following the southerly limits of said city to U.S. Highway No. 50; thence southerly and easterly on said Highway No. 50 to its intersection with California State Highway No. 21; thence southerly on said Highway No. 21 to its intersection, at or near Warm Springs, with California State Highway No. 17; thence southerly on Highway No. 17 to the Alameda-Santa Clara County line; then westerly and following said county line to San Francisco Bay; then northerly, and following the shoreline of San Francisco Bay to the point of