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Grandparents

From the May 1993 Print Edition

Thinking of my grandparents,I stand for a moment on the curbof a street they often walked,the old walks cracked and chipped,and I want to call out to them,as if they were climbers just aheadmoving across rock and fields of ice, rubble in the slip of years past. But if they spoke, would it . . . . Continue Reading »