Troy Osaki is the grandson of Filipino immigrants and the great-grandson of Japanese immigrants. Osaki is a 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. His work has appeared in Crazyhorse, the Margins, Muzzle magazine, Poetry Northwest, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and others. Osaki holds a law degree from the Seattle University School of Law, where he interned at Creative Justice, an arts-based alternative to incarceration for youth in King County. He organizes for national democracy in the Philippines while living in Seattle, Washington.
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Despedida for the Last Despedida
In the Philippines, we abolish goodbye parties for Filipinos
who don’t want to leave—become overseas Filipinos.
Every colonizer wants to be remembered—see our country
whose name is a Spanish king’s name. Philip in Filipino.
The smell of mined dirt is gone. Chevron swims back
to...