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family/Jews

Right Angles (Day 26 NaMoPo)

Posted on April 26, 2018 by Esther Cohen / 2 Comments

Yesterday at a stranger’s to pick up a manuscript struck once again by how there are right angle apartments  everything has a linear place  a chair is abs...

body parts/family/Getting Older

Older (My father)

Posted on November 16, 2017 by Esther Cohen / 9 Comments

Another series I’ve done parts of for years:  I’m Getting Older.  Here’s another older body part.   My hands are different hands. They...

family

The Day After Father’s Day, or The Day After Everything

Posted on June 19, 2017 by Esther Cohen / 2 Comments

    My father wanted to go to Yale Medical School. He did well at Cornell. The Jewish quota is full they said to him in 1928 and often he repeated tha...

family/food

Memorial Day Part Two My Father

Posted on May 30, 2017 by Esther Cohen / 2 Comments

My brother Sam sent another story about my father in the army. What we remember and what we don’t. (Someone asked a few weeks ago: is every story a poem?)...

family/Good Stories

Memorial Day

Posted on May 29, 2017 by Esther Cohen / 4 Comments

The men I knew who went to army most of them didn’t talk about it later. What it was like to be with so many other men all the time.  Far away. Maybe even...

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