Salesman of the Underworld

You beckoned this time.

Come

Alongside us

In this place we Dread.

Ahead

Of fear of Regression;

Dear Toni Morrison,

Can I call you that? Ms or Miss seems too formal but also not powerful enough. Building up to writing this has stretched over four years. It has been long and difficult. What can you ask a woman who has been the focus of much of…

Last summer I took a long weekend trip to Amsterdam with one of my close friends. On a warm day in August, we took a pilgrimage to the Anne Frank House to pay tributes to the writer we had so admired as younger…