"i was a child who could not understand why my mother's body was a mosque"
The poem's style and structure are characterized by: her blue body warsan shire pdf
The "blue body" is a direct reference to the dead migrants washing up on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. It evokes the famous image of Alan Kurdi, the Syrian toddler whose body washed ashore in 2015. Shire transforms this horrifying news image into a tender, mourning vessel. "i was a child who could not understand