Topic Summaries

so big - they saidyou shouldn’t really be moved

so fragile you might break

you could be from anywhere pot

styles have travelled just like terracotta

you could almost be an english pot

but I know you’re not.

I know half of the story pot

of where you come from

of how you got here

but I need you to tell me the rest pot

tell me

did they say you were bought pot

a looters’ deal done

the whole lot

sold to the gentleman in the grey hat

or

did they say you were lost pot

finders are keepersyou know pot

or

did they say they didn’t notice you pot

must have slipped onto the white sailing yacht

bound for england.

someone

somewhere

will have missed you pot

gone out looking for you pot

because

someone

somewhere

made you

finger nails

pressed

snake patterned you pot

washed you pot

used you pot

loved you pot

if I could shatter this glass

I would take you back myself pot.

you think they wouldn’t recognise you pot

say diaspora

you left now

you’re not really one of us.

pot I’ve been back to where my family’s from

they were happy

to see me

laughed a lot

said I was more asian than the asian’s pot

I was pot

imagine.

the hot sun on your back

feel flies settle on your skin

warm grain poured inside

empty pot growl if you hear me

pot?

pot?