Tinamarie HANSEN-LORE

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ~Anaïs Nin

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The Beginning

A sepia tone picture of my father

hangs above the white pine desk.

1940, last year of Junior High.

The last year he attended any school.

He's the smallest of 28 classmates,

the only one with his arms crossed,

shirt sleeves neatly cuffed above

the elbow, eyes squinted as if

challenging the photographer,

already mad at the world.

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Tinamarie Hansen-Lore

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