Hands and Feet
10/01/2013
Whenever we took the subway to Orchard Beach,
my father held my hand until the last stop
at Pelham Bay Park where we waited for the bus
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Civil War
09/29/2013
Broken-in shoes gather molded arches beneath an army of dangling limbs. Some wait, collars upturned, yearning to be made whole. Bare wire hangers dig meatless fingers into sagging woolen shoulders,
A Pencil and a Friendship
09/25/2013
When I think of the witch in Hansel and Gretel, I think of my kindergarten teacher from P.S. 48 in the Bronx, Mrs. Burke. Her one saving grace
A Person of Carriage
09/16/2013
She spoke with a Hungarian accent, her speech
bordered on vines and blue forget-me-nots
Mosquitoes Create Jobs
09/13/2013
It’s been a year since I arrived in the northeastern portion of Louisiana, a wilderness and a wonderland to a northerner who has never lived south before. I’ve been introduced
Eudora Welty in Jackson, Mississippi
09/10/2013
When I drove to Jackson, Mississippi to meet with several members of the Writer’s Guild for lunch, I discovered the answer to a question that I’d been asking myself for a long
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