Manhattan (a poem)
2 min readMar 19, 2021
An eighteen-year-old immigrant reaches the Port of New York in 1910
The first crossing
over the choppy gray Atlantic
was with his father
to work.
The second crossing,
they took their American money
home.
An eighteen-year-old immigrant reaches the Port of New York in 1910
The first crossing
over the choppy gray Atlantic
was with his father
to work.
The second crossing,
they took their American money
home.
Writer with a love of the overlooked. Author of the historical fiction novel The Indenture of Ivy O’Neill,.www.DianeHelentjaris.com