Patricia Bassel

I am a teacher, traveler and poet.

I love the wide, open spaces and the energy of cities, too.

I walk behind the doors of my hometown library

and the musee rodin on the left bank of Paris

enclosed in pure pleasure

I reach out to listen to

Geronimo

Maya Angelou

Woody Guthrie

Rimbaud

Frida Kahlo

poetry that speaks of prairies and paris

my father and mother, brother and sisters

I have walked the rue mouffetard in early morning paris

and the winding road of the Wichitas in Oklahoma

the places I run from are the places I run to...

I am more than one language

una cabeza es un mundo.

After working abroad for 23 years, I have moved back to the USA with pounds of travel memories, exotic spices, photographs and cultural insight. I connect to a place through its people, music, poetry and landscape. This cultural awakening can unnerve and stir me. My mother and father had a bookshelf full of books about local history. How do I embrace all these worlds to create a new home in an old, familiar place?