Where is she? How old is she? Why does she want to call Baltimore? When was the last time she saw her brother?
> > >> The Phone Call >> Philip Levine >> >> She calls Chicago, but no one >> is home. The operator asks >> for another number but still >> no one answers. Together >> they try twenty-one numbers, >> and at each no one is ever home. >> "Can I call Baltimore?" she asks. >> She can, but she knows no one >> in Baltimore, no one in >> St Louis, Boston, Washington. >> She imagines herself standing >> before the glass wall high >> over Lake Shore Drive, the cars >> below fanning into the city. >> East she can see all the way >> to Gary and the great gray clouds >> of exhaustion rolling over >> the lake where her vision ends. >> This is where her brother lives. >> At such height there's nothing, >> no birds, no growing, no noise. >> She leans her sweating forehead >> against the cold glass, shudders, >> and puts down the receiver. >> >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/ > mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > "In the end we will remember, not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. " ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
