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Saints of the Divine Lorraine Hotel

The Divine Lorraine stood at the intersection of Broad Street and Fairmount Avenue like a cathedral and a beacon,

Spider Walking

I’ve heard that this is something that a lot of girls go through, but then they grow out of it.

Bra Shopping at Wanamaker’s with My Grandmother

I am in the dressing room of Wanamaker’s in downtown Philadelphia as my grandmother tries on bras.

Going Places

My daughter needed an apostle.

Last

I did the work your nervous fingers  were afraid to do

Deliverance

They hand me forgotten dice each a different shade of white —

Rideshare

The car is silver, not taxi yellow,

Astronomy

on our first date i’ll take you to that field of carnations in wisborg

In June

I’m often wrong about the true nature of things.

Visiting

On the walk to my grandmother’s grave,  my mother says she’d like to be buried in a cemetery 

Sniff

When my father failed at frying an egg

Pawpaw by the Lehigh

we find them low along the bank mottled gray and yellow

Possible Happiness by David Ebenbach

In 1989, junior year, Jacob Wasserman would be transformed from a quiet, shy, and, in his own estimation, “two-dimensional” loner