Works
"A Mothering"
"A Mothering" chronicles the sighting of a stranger in a park eerily resembling the narrator's mother and the slow-burn grief over the mother's decline into dementia.
"No, the Other Right"
"No, the Other Right" is a prose poem expressing the narrator's bewilderment with pedestrians who fail to follow "the rules of the road" when crossing the street at major crosswalks in urban environments.
“Mismeasured"
"Mismeasured" is a story making its way from disappointment to reconciliation. The narrator wants to study violin at a prestigious music school. She fails the audition, then abandons that dream and playing of her instrument. Decades later music comes back to her through her daughter and her community.
"Megisti Hilltop”
"Megisti Hilltop" is a prose poem excerpted from Linda's memoir-in-progress. Megisti is another name for the island of Kastellorizo, Linda's ancestral homeland.