Lisa: I do not yet know the origin three generations behind being a direction I can look to and yet if I were to fly to Istanbul I would not know where to board the plane only that we would arrive separately and at the same time

                                                                                                                                                  Josepha: we are perhaps always living parallel lives our families living parallel lives and at times those points of intersection being clear points

like Lodz like

Paris or Berlin

a boat that one

family took

and the other didn’t

and years later

there were planes

Lisa: soon a plane to Poland

parents who were and were not born there

soon a train to Germany

parents who were and were not too