Family History
Hybrid or multi,
what are you,
my Welsh cousin asked
Jewish/English/white/not quite
Dad loved being first in his precinct
let me pull the lever
to clank closed the curtain
voting was Dad at his most profound
he believed in voting
as immigrants do
and in America
& in what we kids could do
I step into the shimmering pool
but there's no water, the concrete
sides wave in sunlight through willows
what I reach for isn't there
Is this finished? I dunno. Plopping it in here in order to get some distance.