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.