Esther stories

Initials etched on a dining-room table, Lockeport, Nova Scotia

Thumbs

In the walls

Early November

Pile of clothes

Papa Gino's

On a bridge over the Homochitto

Cousin Tuck's

Toe Poes

Shoe story

Thursday night at the gopher hole, April 1992

Country Road G

At the Motel Rainbow

Sitting Theodore

At Horseneck Beach

Sarah

Walt Kaplan reads Hiroshima, March 1947

Melba Kuperschmid returns

Birth of a son-in-law

At the Conrad Hilton

Awnings, bedspreads, combed yarns

High priest at the gates

In the dark

Atlantic City

Providence

Michigan City, Indiana

The raft

The house on Lunt Avenue

Daughters

My father in an elevator with Anita Fanska, August 1976

Seymour

The moraine on the lake

Esther stories

The waters.