Red Polka-Dot Dress
(Excerpts from commentary and a reading delivered at the NYU School of Medicine, December 4, 2002)
Marc J. Straus
Audio and text of commentary reproduced with the permission of Marc J. Straus.
her husband said, the X-ray films
still on the screen. He pulled out
a picture. This is us in 1963,
standing near the stone parapegm
On it they engraved the ruler's laws and
proclamations. That's Athena with
an eroded nose and worn-out hands.
Mildred's in a red polka-dot dress.
looks in that morning light
pulled up in a bun above her neck.
And that's me holding her hand.
I see, I said.
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