Author Archives: Ron Pavellas
They Go Away
They go away to somewhere Or nowhere Parents, aunts, uncles, siblings And friends Bequeathing a strange landscape Scoured and empty Yet blooming With ghostly memories These grow heavy But I shrug them away Each day, every day How many times … Continue reading
A love story, inside a lecture on race, wrapped in an exploration of cultural differences between the USA and Nigeria
Last year I read Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimananda Ngozi Adiche. It was well-written and engaging, and informative about a part of the world I knew little of: Nigeria and the Nigerian Civil War. More recently I viewed … Continue reading
The Pavellas Perspective 