Q1: The house is not not just a "house" - it is/was a home. That's the big
perspective to understand first. Home where people live and have grown up
together. It is more than just a house. It changed over the years, e.g.
because the area where it is in was rezoned from residential to light
industrial. After a few decades the garden became too much to look after as
my parents got oldrer, etc etc....That should give you some ideas of
changing perspectives within the poem.
Q2: It "haunts" me because it troubles me - it follows me around in my head
until I wrote the poem...Maybe there is something ancestral in the European
heritage that keeps reminding me that I'm more than just "Tru Blue."
Q3:Why do you get the impression that I'm ambivalent, etc. Only in Post
Card does thids come out. Father is Polish, Mother is Ukrainian. I asked
the question: what is my identity ? Where do I fit in ?
Mother Nature (i.e.) the tree on the riverbank comes to the rescue...
Best wishes
Peter Skrzynecki
