"cousin" if i may

call you my cousin

dalton family in my blood

from newfoundland mother

back to ireland

and you ...

your father supposedly

a kansas bank robber

-one of the brothers-

one of fifteen siblings

(like my father) not

named who escaped

to an el salvador life

 

like you-am a poet

on the radio   have been

in czech   with one book

published in translation

by a communist house

in beograd   srbija

but am not yet to cuba

or el salvador   while

active in social justice and

education   am a labour

union troublemaker 

not yet as revolutionary

as you   my cousin roque