"Kadiköy Ferry"
Thomas R. Moore

"I learn by going where I have to go."
Roethke

For months I’ve been trying to write a poem called
‘Kadiköy Ferry’ about how I am pulled back
to Turkey because my children were born there.

I have some evocative lines in the poem like A gypsy
girl sells flowers, her fingers curled around yellow
calendulas and Dark- ( Read more... )