SOURCE B
From “ Resistance to Images of the Internment: Mitsuye Yamanda’s Camp Notes”
Compiled by Anita Haya Patterson and published by The Society for the Study of Mulit-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) http://www.jstor.org.stable/467680
Stanza from “Apt C “
The barbed fence
protected us
from wildly twisted
sagebrush. (1-4)
Stanza from “Desert Storm”
Five pairs of hands
in our room
with mess hall
butter knives
stuffed
newspapers and rags
between the cracks.
but the Idaho dust
persistent and seeping
found us crouched
under the covers. (11-21)
Consider:
– plural hands, singular room
– butter knives are dull, unlike serrated steak knives
– personification of dust
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