Sisters
For years I didn’t like either one of you, felt I was returning the favor— the baby, an annoyance, an inconvenience, the one you dragged on the subway to go ice-skating, left me holding the railing. In a one-bedroom apartment, slept on a twin bed in the corner of the room, got up early on […]
A Person of Carriage
–for Aunt Jeanette She spoke with a Hungarian accent, her speech bordered on vines and blue forget-me-nots dropped her w’s in soft cushions beneath my feet, took a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast with cottage cheese. Mid-morning she drank orange pekoe tea in a glass, prunes and pears spiked with cloves, anointed herself in the […]
The Morgue, the Merrier
Satchmo, of course; the Marsalis family, naturally, even Ann Rice, and her vampirish underground. But me living in Louisiana? You’ve got to be kidding! I got here on subways and BART trains, sidewalks, public parks, and noise made by people, not insects whining for hours in the summer heat loud enough to drown out a […]
Sterlington or Bust
The deed is done. The movers drove up yesterday in an 80 foot truck, the kind you see in your rear view mirror barreling down the freeway and decide to merge into the right hand lane quick. Warren and Richard stormed through my boxes, wrapped furniture in pads, placed inventory stickers on everything and drove […]
Moving from California to Louisiana
The deed is done. The movers drove up yesterday in an 80 foot truck, the kind you see in your rear view mirror barreling down the freeway and decide to merge into the right hand lane quick. Warren and Richard stormed through my boxes, wrapped furniture in pads, placed inventory stickers on everything and drove […]