The topic for today is trauma histories: specifically, poems which talk about how trauma is passed from generation to generation. So the first poem thus is a meditation on the fictional town of Luminberg and on the Holocaust. The second poem is called “I’m Not Looking For The Easy Way Out, Baby,” and it’s about accepting our trauma histories. The third poem, “I Will No Longer Bear Your Burden,” is in memory of the 215 murdered children, who were found on the grounds of the Kamloops Residential School, in Kamloops, British Columbia, in 2021.