My mom hadn’t smoked since college

1986
Wendy Wisner

#Poetry #WendyWisner #1986 #OnTheSeawall #Mother #Smoking #School #Memory

//www.ronslate.com/1986-2/

I won’t learn why my mother wore that hat.

Woman with a Trump Mask in the Medical Center Waiting Area
Jackleen Holton

#Poetry #JackleenHolton #Trump #Pandemic #OnTheSeawall

https://www.ronslate.com/woman-with-a-trump-mask-in-the-medical-center-waiting-area/

But we are children still this day

18 West Eleventh Street, March 5th, 1970
Chard deNiord

#Poetry #ChardDeNiord #1970 #WeatherUnderground #Manhattan #GreenwichVillage #OnTheSeawall

https://www.ronslate.com/18-west-eleventh-street-march-5th-1970/

My essay on interviewing a Khmer Rouge torturer in #Cambodia is out with #ontheSeawall today. This creative non-fiction piece got started with David Lazar at Chautauqua.

“I remember sweating, shirt stuck to my skin, in a desolate jungle in Cambodia, while you sat at ease on the wooden platform, gnawing chicken dripping with grease, how you cracked the bones, sucked the marrow, told me about the prisoners you tortured during the genocide..."
https://www.ronslate.com/pol-pots-secret-prison/