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On A Ship
He was still reading the Book of Job. The prophet Jonah tried to flee from God unto Tarshish, and Isadore Lemberger was fleeing from death unto Buenos Aires.
February 2021Readers Write
Holidays
Chinese New Year in Philadelphia, Thanksgiving in Mexico, Passover in prison
December 2020
Readers Write
My Country
Claiming a heritage, becoming a citizen, landing in a foreign jail
October 2020
The Dog-Eared Page
The Race
I used my legs and heart as if I would
gladly use them up for this,
to touch him again in this life
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Les Calanques
I think of that ancient time when the sea was cut off from the ocean, how low it sank, the way the rivers carved canyons to replenish it. Such beauty often requires a kind of devastation. Maybe the saddest landscapes are always the most beautiful.
September 2020
Photography
Unsettled
Almost fifty years ago 170 Romani families settled in the Polygone district of Strasbourg, France. They parked their caravan vehicles and, over time, constructed homes on empty land near an airfield, often using salvaged materials.
May 2020
The Dog-Eared Page
Kindness
Before you know what kindness really is / you must lose things, / feel the future dissolve in a moment
April 2020
Poetry
In The Car Ahead
He needs more time to brake / so he drives slow. He needs / more time to read traffic signs / so he drives slow.
April 2020
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