Lee Sittler

L e e  S i t t l e r

Extremadura

       –Valle del Jerte, Spain

You recognize, in its voice,

your mother–

something indistinguishable,

lost and trapped

between two hills. Someone

you never met

and have known your whole life,

all at once, and you meet her

for the first time in a foreign land,

in a non-native tongue,

thousands of miles away

from your last incarnation of home.