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.
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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