Wednesday, August 07, 2013

Who Knew Paula Morris was a poet?

Tuesday Poem (on Wednesday !)


 
 
Tuesday Poem this week is by author of the award-winning Rangatira, Paula Morris (right), who is currently living in Sheffield England. It is called Where and begins:

 





Where are you from, I ask the waiter.

He is from Brazil, Poland, Florence.

Sometimes he is from Mexico, and I

say: so is my nephew’s fiancée.

 

In Auckland the taxi driver who lives in

Henderson is from Afghanistan. There are

forty of them there, he says. They love it, but
they have to make their own bread.

 

With the poem comes a commentary by this week's editor Renee Liang with her take on the same question ... a complex and satisfying post on identity by the Tuesday Poem team.  The poem continues here. 

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