Sandy Solomon: Diary from a Tomato Cannery, 1912
I walked part way home with a girl of ten
who’d peeled tomatoes from 6 am
to 6:30 in the evening.
“Things to eat is so high,” she said.
“We can’t go to school. We gotter work.”
December 6, 2023 · 9 Comments
Sandy Solomon: Casual Labor
The man at the front door wants work,
any job. Hand on the knob, I start
to turn him down, to swing the door’s weight
to, but then I consider my mother’s mother.
September 11, 2023 · 17 Comments
Jason Baldinger: Résumé
apparently just to live
just to experience life
is not an acceptable trade
January 28, 2020 · 2 Comments
