Paper and Ink

Mountain Nose: International Voluntary Services/VN, ’68-’69, II-III Corps, as orphanage shop instructor, supply delivery, and recon. Member Poets West Society. "Paper and Ink" was given Honorable Mention in Short Edition's America: color it in. Contest, summer 2020.

She didn't think herself a racist. She'd had black school friends, worked with black women at the restaurant, and watched Oprah daily.

But when her seven-year-old, white daughter brought home a children's book from the library featuring all black youngsters, she had to ask: Why? 

"'Cuz' I can read all the words, Mama."

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