A retired oral language teacher for special-needs students, Canadian-born Aubrey Davis is a storyteller and children’s author. He lives in Toronto and was the recipient of the 2003 Sydney Taylor Book Award and the 2004 Canadian Jewish Book Awards Children’s Literature Prize.
Together with many others we emigrated from Kraków to the great city of Vienna. It is already ten weeks since we relocated here. We withstood many troubles. For nearly two weeks we simply wandered in…
My father brought the emigrant bundle
of desperation and worn threads,
that in anxiety as he stumbles
tumble out distractedly;
while I am bedded upon soft green money
that grows like grass.
Thus…