The Road Beneath Our Feet
Smithfield Street. Pittsburgh – 1976
Mother And Son
Clutching his hand, a mother leads her son home.
He is beautiful, halo hair, smooth skin,
something delicious saved in his lunch bag.
His mother is not beautiful. Necessity
has made her grim. She moves ungainly
in her checkered pants and sleeveless shirt,
which mercifully conceals her neck.
The boy hangs back, looking sideways
at the world going by,
already plotting his escape.
— Candace Katz
Candace Katz left academia just in time, having garnered degrees in literature, law, and private detection. She served many years at the National Endowment for the Humanities and for several years as Deputy Director of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Candace is currently writing the third in a series of travel-adventure mystery novels, this one set in Shanghai, the first two novels’ having already explored the cities of Oaxaca and Santa Fe.
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