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One To Watch, And One To Pray

We passed the baby over the bed, and later we passed tissue, and her Bible with its onion skin pages, its highlighted lessons and dog-eared parables she kept handy with bookmarks whose tassels hung and swayed as her hair might have done when she was very sweet and very young, and when […]

Spring

i I’m surprised by purple crocuses on the way home and the farther I look the more they multiply a kind of secret reunion with family long lost, relatives whom I welcome in other forms because it’s Spring, and the weather is full of arrivals: I see you now, Grandfather – little storm gathering […]

From Maine to New York

I once read in a poem that the heart rests between beats. My suitcase holds three books, a nightgown and clothes for six days. It takes five and a half hours to drive to Harlem. My grandmother sleeps until 11. I leave Portland at 9. We have dinner at our favorite restaurant on LaSalle Street. […]

Family - fathers/mothers/children/etc.

One To Watch, And One To Pray

Spring

From Maine to New York