Printer Friendly
The Free Library
14,670,786 articles and books
Member login
User name  
Password 
 
Join us Forgot password?

Incident.


the day of the accident we were waiting for the train on the elevated platform above westchester Westchester is the name of some places in the United States of America:
  • Westchester, Los Angeles, California
  • Westchester, Florida
  • Westchester, Illinois
  • Westchester County, New York
  • The Westchester, a shopping mall in White Plains, New York
 avenue / the avenue that never saw sunlight except filtered through the cracks of the tracks / its abstract fretwork on the cars below. we didn't did·n't  

Contraction of did not.


didn't did not
didn't do
 see them run / see the birth of the thought / the oldest's decision to risk it / pulling his sister by the hand we only heard impact / heads jerked around / the sound that registers not in the rational mind but in the collective unconscious col·lec·tive unconscious
n.
In Jungian psychology, a part of the unconscious mind that is shared by a society, a people, or all humankind. The product of ancestral experience, it contains such concepts as science, religion, and morality.
 / the wrong sound that means the threat of death / the tribe tribe [Lat., tribus: the tripartite division of Romans into Latins, Sabines, and Etruscans], a social group bound by common ancestry and ties of consanguinity and affinity; a common language and territory; and characterized by a political and economic  mobilized / two children down / two of us watching from above/the train coming in fast / our skirts inflated like lungs ...

o
COPYRIGHT 1996 African American Review
No portion of this article can be reproduced without the express written permission from the copyright holder.
Copyright 1996, Gale Group. All rights reserved. Gale Group is a Thomson Corporation Company.

 Reader Opinion

Title:

Comment:



 

Article Details
Printer friendly Cite/link Email Feedback
Author:McFarland, JoAnne
Publication:African American Review
Date:Jun 22, 1996
Words:115
Previous Article:Where we begin. (poem)
Next Article:Soweto, the present tense. (poem)
Topics:

Terms of use | Copyright © 2009 Farlex, Inc. | Feedback | For webmasters | Submit articles