A friend asked if my mother had a brogue.
She was forty when she landed here,
She probably did. She must have.
What does a child hear?
I was accustomed to it.
I only heard her voice.
Others no doubt did. Liked the lilt.
I heard the voice,
Not the accent.
Sep 14, 2017
Sep 14, 2017 at 9:50 PM UTC
A friend asked if my mother had a brogue.
She was forty when she landed here,
She probably did. She must have.
What does a child hear?
I was accustomed to it.
I only heard her voice.
Others no doubt did. Liked the lilt.
I heard the voice,
Not the accent.
I never heard her Irish accent, or my father's or older sibs.
