Aren’t you the one
who waved goodbye
then left for thirty years
only to return today
expecting us all to say:
stranger, good to see you.
Sit down, tell us your stories,
hear a few of our own.
While you were away
Ricardo Sternberg has lived in Toronto since 1979, teaching Brazilian literature at the University of Toronto. He has published three books of poetry and McGill-Queen’s University Press will publish his fourth, Some Dance, in the spring of 2014.
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