CuppaGemma

Nectarines always seemed in season tickling in you intensely, c’mon c’mon little fruit shop made you want everything escarole, tomatoes, soft plums, zucchini to fry eggplants saying, “Me too”, and sweet peppers The family pushed your bundle across the gray brown counter worn from wooden slat pullers- C shaped things like skee ball markers which […]

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Bedford and Avenue H, schoolbooks riding unbelted shotgun cross to Ocean Avenue, not Bay Parkway weaving with buses, sanitation trucks, cement mixers and straight backed brick apartment buildings in red with attached fire escapes and retirees in folding chairs Green means go, and the kid whose radio outprices his car can certainly plow ahead while […]

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