Lantern Review: A Journal of Asian American Poetry

Issue 4 | Winter 2012

The procedures of production
I do not care for. I'm not a real farmer, I only switched my class like that Stokes from Philadelphia who was only a graft behind the bandaged joint. His father wanted him to become an engineer—the Indian sun fried his brains—he saw Christ “toilworn and travel-stained, trudging on foot along an Indian high-road.” He gave up the clothes his mother bought—eventually gave up Christ—gave up his name: Sam became Satyanand—fought against the English like an American time traveler—broke dark mud, chucked stones and planted delicious saplings. The Indiana University Press republished his biography in 2008. Penguin Books India in 1999. But in each apple tree
I see skin.