VIRGINIA MALLON
There are no foreign lands.
It is the traveler only who is foreign.
Robert Louis Stevenson
from the depression
hope settled
on the border
of kings and queens
later we arrived
unaware of a legacy
not knowing where we were from
who we were
until it reached out
and pulled us under
u r b a n a p p a l a c h i a
hope settled
on the border
of kings and queens
later we arrived
unaware of a legacy
not knowing where we were from
who we were
until it reached out
and pulled us under
u r b a n a p p a l a c h i a
