NEA Big Read at PWPL

HALLOWED GROUND It was no big deal when mum and gram invited me to pick mushrooms at the old locker plant... Why has that day grown so large in my mind? Is this what happens when you lapse from what you believe to be sacred, replacing it with something less abstract a bounty of white buttons picked in the company of those you love the most? STAND-UP GUY A thought of you grazed my mind as I stood on the curb outside the video store... It's not until I watch a famous actor's turn as CP sufferer that something clicks Holly, her name was She lived with cousins who wouldn't give an inch to disability I can still see the bliss written on her face as you reached for her hand asking for the pleasure of a dance COMEDIAN Even as a kid you had the gift I recall you sending up the dentist for pinching your salivary gland; how, routine done, you collapse into the Morris chair running your hand along the slats under the armrest Years later, I marvel as you work a crowd your riposte when ...