poem quotes

Question 1

the way my mother speaks

Answer 1

D- dipped
E-end of summer
R- restful shapes moving
B- browsing
E- ever
I- in my head
H- homesick free

Question 2

originally

Answer 2

T-“the street, the house, the vacant rooms where we didnt live anymore”
I-“I remember my tongue shedding its skin like a snake”
Y-“your accent wrong”
M-“my brothers cried, one of them bawling”
O-“our mother singing our fathers name”
A-“all childhood is an emigration”
Y-“you forget, or don’t recall, or change”
N-“no one you know”