Poem by Teresa Peipins

Heritage
 
Buy gold.
Buy it now.
When you flee
the home exploding,
the burnt landscape,
trade it for a loaf of bread.
 
Remember the rhymes
of so many poems
to fill the confined
calendar days
of prison life.

Teresa Peipins is a writer of Latvian descent from Western New York. Her poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in publications both in the United States and abroad.

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