I Wish I Could Have Said Thank You in the Dark

I wish I could have said thank you in the dark

It would have been more heroic 

I wish I could have stood my ground in courage

and planted my feet, fearless in the fog

Instead, I fell long and deep and slow…

Where Am I From?

“Where are you from?” she asked me, well-meaning eyes expecting an answer that would fit neatly into this cup of tea after church world we’d stumbled into like refugees from another planet. 

I blinked. My voice stumbling lost in my dark throat…

Dis-Location

This weeks poem… on my experience of moving countries.