Category: writings

  • My Sister and Her Sign

    My Sister and Her Sign

    I don’t see my sister’s face in the photograph.I see her arm. It is stretched upward, steady, holding something taller than she is: a woman in red with her fist raised. On the woman’s back, in blunt black letters, are the words SEARCH THE LANDFILLS. It is not a decorative sign.It is not clever.It is…