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Going Home Maurice Kenny
Posted by: Ster (---.pn.at.cox.net)
Date: April 25, 2005 07:01AM

Can someone help me with the meaning of the peom.
Going Home
--© 1988 Maurice Kenny

The book lay unread in my lap
snow gathered at the window
from Brooklyn it was a long ride
the Greyhound followed the plow
from Syracuse to Watertown
to country cheese and maples
tired rivers and closed paper mills
home to gossipy aunts . . .
their dandelions and pregnant cats . . .
home to cedars and fields of boulders
cold graves under willows and pine
home from Brooklyn to the reservation
that was not home
to songs I could not sing
to dances I could not dance
from Brooklyn bars and ghetto rats
to steaming horses stomping frozen earth
barns and privies lost in blizzards
home to a Nation, Mohawk
to faces I did not know
and hands which did not recognize me
to names and doors
my father shut


Re: Going Home Maurice Kenny
Posted by: Desi (---.adsl.proxad.net)
Date: April 25, 2005 09:18AM

You have some answers here:

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It is mostly the same people answering queries there and here, so posting twice won't double your answers, but nice try ;-)

What does help is giving some feedback on the comments made. If you are more specific, the answers will be so too.




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