Description
- Kind: Perfectbound
- Pages: 46
- Language: English
- Date Published: June 2018
- ISBN 978-1-948017-18-3
Excerpt
Firenze, Italy
All Mother knew was he managed passage as a sailor to Cuba where he met her. He remembered the fountain. Before he died he told Mother that life came from fountains. Carmelita told me that my ancestors were fountain people of Lisbon. Carmelita cared for me until I was ten. She was killed by a tram in Havana in the early 1960s. I found this sketch of Santo Spirito fountain in her pocket.
Author
Steven Paul Lansky is a resident of Clifton in Cincinnati, where he walks daily without a dog, and sometimes carries an umbrella to protect him from the spring and fall rain. He enjoys the magnolias, flowering crabapples, peonies, daffodils, and hydrangeas. His years of commitment to the neighborhood date to the 1960s with a gap from 1975-1991. He loves to sit on a dilapidated loveseat that clutters the stone porch where ideas float by like bicycles, to snag with his clear and unfettered mind, where he once pedaled regularly.