Haibun

Legacies   

 

Italian immigrants come with little in their pockets, yet riches in their hands. Stone masons who give life to rocks and brick. They build low walls to mark property lines, six-foot walls to surround an estate, columns to support an iron gate and walls to decorate their own modest homes. They build a bank, a school, a church. They build a village.

chiseled stones

an old man’s hands

folded in death

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