for A.H.\u042f.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n I returned to Siberia My husband and I They said Three days on the train and When we came home Solidarity for A.H.\u042f. I returned to Siberia the village of my childhood my aging relatives wrinkled and sick in multiple ways an ambulance for my uncle the day after Christmas. My husband and I went walking \u2013 forty-five below \u2013 avoiding streets where wolf packs snap up neighbors\u2019 dogs. The tip of his nose turned … Continue reading Michael Goldman<\/span>
\nthe village of my childhood
\nmy aging relatives
\nwrinkled and sick
\nin multiple ways
\nan ambulance for my uncle
\nthe day after Christmas.<\/p>\n
\nwent walking \u2013
\nforty-five below \u2013
\navoiding streets
\nwhere wolf packs
\nsnap up neighbors\u2019 dogs.
\nThe tip of his nose
\nturned white so
\nwe had to go back.<\/p>\n
\nthere would be
\nno helicopters
\nthe first two weeks
\nof January
\nso I bribed a driver
\nto get us out of there
\nten hours in his car
\ndown a frozen river
\nto the nearest station town.
\nLuckily when we passed
\na car capsized
\nin the ice
\nmy husband
\nwas asleep.<\/p>\n
\nwe were in Moscow.
\nLiberated! I am Russian,
\nbut not solely. My roots
\nare Ukraine and Romania.
\nI do not believe
\nin Mother Russia
\nwho eats her neighbors
\nand exiles their children.<\/p>\n
\nto our apartment
\nin Athens it was fifteen
\ncelsius. I went to the beach
\nthree days in a row to lie
\nin the sun. That was two weeks
\nago and I have been sick
\never since. I am five feet tall
\nthin as a rail. I speak seven languages.
\nI have a daughter and a dog.
\nMy name is Anna.
\nWhat\u2019s yours?<\/p>\n