Comments Roma is planning to go home to Albion for a visit and clearly has not told her mother about Fred, at least in any detail, and she cautions him not to write to her there, seeming to think her mother might read his letters. (A letter she wrote from Albion that she makes reference …
Poem―India Series. Traffic
I'm driving in the daily traffic jam of North Calcutta. A war must have recently taken place. Cars, buses, rickshaws, jeeps, cycles, trucks, cows, pedestrians, pushcarts, all strain to move at all. My friend seated next to me sings a classical raga of midnight in rural Bengal. A cyclist nearly collides with our car in …
Roma and Fred #17
Comments Roma’s new job, teaching music in Fostoria, Ohio, appears to fill her with purpose and that makes her happy. She tells him that his love for her provides the foundation for her to take on the job with gusto. She has decided not to add to her income of $90 per month with additional …
Roma and Fred #16
Comments It seems that Roma had a pregnancy scare and took something, perhaps to induce a miscarriage―there is a reference to a “tea,” and a suggestion that she keep it in case it’s needed again. A combination of missing a critical postcard and having to read between the lines make it difficult to know for …
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