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    World Poetry Day

    Twenty-Two

    The age my mother and I emigrated to cities


    we had never been, years apart

    but some things were the same:


    same church-like shuffle

    down the jetway,


    same keyhole window seeping light.

    Same long-haul flight leaving us


    sand-tongued, the chilled air

    a punch in the face


    when she landed mid-winter.

    Surrounded by concrete towers,


    she dropped the first payslip

    down a gutter,
    the snow landing like large moths.

    And me from Vancouver to Glasgow,


    35 Kelvinhaugh Gate, a flat so damp

    I slept in a wool hat for months


    and got lost coming back from a place

    I'd been twice, so in a pub's doorway


    I spread out my map, leaf-thin.

    Once I heard her say,


    "twenty-two is the age I left Manila"...

    left the only patch of land she knew


    to wonder as I did, on that cold step:

    should I go back, or have I begun again?

    Theresa Muñoz

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