What the Living Do by Marie Howe

Author:Marie Howe [Howe, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780393075908
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1998-05-15T04:00:00+00:00

Rochester, New York, July 1989

Early summer evenings, the city kids would ride their bikes down his street

no-handed, leaning back in their seats, and bump over the curb

of the empty Red Cross parking lot next door where Joe’s car was parked, and

John’s white Honda, broken and unregistered…everything blooming,

that darkening in the trees before the sky goes dark: the sweetness of the lilacs

and the grass smell…

And the sound on the front porch steps was wooden and hollow,

and up the narrow stairway stuffy and dim, and the upper door maybe a little

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