My poem, BEHIND THE COUNTER, just went live on Brief Wilderness
https://briefwilderness.com/2021/07/15/behind-the-counter-by-rochelle-jewel-shapiro/ Credit for the photo goes to the ingenious folks at SHOE MUSIC PRESS
https://briefwilderness.com/2021/07/15/behind-the-counter-by-rochelle-jewel-shapiro/ Credit for the photo goes to the ingenious folks at SHOE MUSIC PRESS
This is a photo of my dad probably taken in the 1920s. How amazing for me to see him having a moment of leisure. When I knew him, he stood behind the counter of his grocery store fourteen hours a day, six-and-a-half days a week.
http://www.packingtownreview.com/issues/15/shapiro/quarantined.html#.YGz9ZRNKjOQhttp://www.packingtownreview.com/issues/15/shapiro/quarantined.html#.YGz9ZRNKjOQ
Published this poem written before my husband came out of the nursing home