This Paper Boat by Gregory Kan

Author:Gregory Kan [Kan, Gregory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poetry
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 2015-11-27T00:00:00+00:00

I. stayed on D’Urville Island in the Marlborough Sounds until her pregnancy, the second, began to show. The family she boarded with took her on their next ferry ride to Picton. I won’t know another safe day till you’re out of the house, Mrs Snape said to her. At a lawyer’s office in Blenheim, she asked whether she would be sent to prison for registering Derek as legitimate. My parents had gotten married in a hurry after Joel was conceived, a fact revealed to me and my siblings only after a particularly spiteful argument between my parents. My mother tearfully begged me to speak to Joel. At the time I couldn’t understand the shame she felt.

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