Bequest (Pantoum)

Epitaphs:
'just not to ask myself: who am I now' Goran Simic's Immigrant Blues
'speak your secret in secret;
and to truth: never withhold what you know lest you Harden the truth in a lie'
Pablo Neruda's The Truth

This cycle of poems is a response to my parents and grandparents; immigration and being 'dis-placed' as a person. Salvation (published a Giegenertanz), The Beaverbrae & Benalto (published as Benalto Road) were part of a Diaspora Dialogues anthology (with mentoring by Molly Peacock) in 2009.