MOFA

In most countries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) is the government department responsible for state diplomacy as well as for providing for the country's citizens abroad-often displaced persons. This collection of recorded "releases" (poems) takes the idea of a government entity created to protect its citizens and applies it to the authors' parents-MOther & FAther, displaced people of WWII who experienced immigrant hardship and inherited PTSD, which triggered abuse and addiction-and who were then unequipped to protect their children (citizens) from the epigenetic trauma of displacement. This is the author's protective "document"; these are her "papers".