ecclectica

her last name

by Mary Anne Lamy

her last name
was mine when i was young

any relation

maybe
i didnt ask

not wishing to discover
the trail my father left
over countless angry women
on his way to my mother
and his flight beyond
my sister and i

she was young & pregnant
maybe my other mother
she with those part brothers
two lives below me
but three worlds apart
 
they in their indian modern
me in my english canadian
with broken prairie between