Us and Them

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Maybe we all forget what's most familiar </em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>because what's most familiar</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is the air we breathe</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>which like our own scent</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is only odorless to us. </em></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Watching you was like watching </em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>someone I should know</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>stumbling through life </em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>oblivious of how beautiful </em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>he truly is.</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From his childhood years in a small mountain town in West Africa to a chance encounter with a food vendor in Haiti Ramin Gillett's first collection of poetry </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Us and Them</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> explores the delicate tension that exists between the ways we alienate each other and our collective desire for identity and belonging. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ramin draws upon his unique background of navigating multiple cultural realities to explore the vastness and diversity of the human landscape simultaneously challenging us to go beyond our narrow lenses and embrace a larger reality one that allows for forgiveness and healing.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Us and Them</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> illuminates what it means to be alive in an age of intensifying polarization and xenophobia. </span></p>