Daughter, yours is a different alphabet,
For every word I know, you know another.
You are only half mine, and half
A language hard to learn. In America
When I point out geese winging overhead,
A wedge aimed like an arrow out of winter,
Letter
A. E. Stallings
A. E. Stallings is an American poet who has lived in Greece since 1999. She has recently published a new verse translation of Hesiod’s Works and Days (Penguin Classics), and a new collection of poetry, Like (with FSG).