Locations

The Pilgrims landed more than once

First in Provincetown then later

In Plymouth

And this week we will eat turkey

To celebrate and not think too much

About Plymouth Rock, which is only a rock

Misnamed and mistreated

By tourists with chisels

Turning it to sand

Like the sand in Provincetown, positioned

As a hand

Waving to the open sea

On this rock, a myth was built, Boston Globe, Nov. 22, 2009

West of the Berlin Wall 20 Years Later

Walls come down. People reunite

Families come together

Others drift apart.

Walls come down.

Fathers throw up their hands. Old rules

dissolve into yesterday.

Replaced by joy and then by questions.

New structures go up

Because what is life

without containers?

Walls come down.