Newspapers, classrooms, documentaries and art
discussions and readings
on and on.
The country we live in
is of trees, lakes, rivers and birds
its name on postcards, world maps
its history in songs “from Atlantic to Pacific”
like everything I know so well:
the mind not stopping to think
of my childhood school’s name till I leave it
Only now do I stop and think:
this country’s name is not of our language.