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Mostly Water
Paperback
Publisher: Aisha Fukushima
Published: May 8 2026
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
What are you?
Human.
Mostly water
overflows through my eyes
when I feel misunderstood.
No, what are you?
Mostly Water is a poetry collection born from years of navigating social norms that fail to capture what it means to be Mixed. Drawing on her lived experiences as a Black and Japanese person growing up between the U.S. and Japan, Aisha Fukushima explores what it means to live from mixed roots.
Moving through her grandmother's kitchen, hair salons, and post-WWII Afro-Japanese histories, Fukushima challenges narrow frameworks around racial belonging. Here, abundance replaces the racialized math of halves and quarters. From microaggressions to quiet prayers, each stanza is a lyric within a larger freedom song.
These poems are an opening - an offering for anyone who has ever searched for language spacious enough to hold who they truly are. We are, after all, mostly water - fluid, uncontainable, beyond measure.
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