Nine ways of seeing him
By Monica A. Hand (’97,’98,’01)

1. red dump truck

2. drifting snow

3. cold-cut sandwiches

4. four kids in the back seat
mother in the front

5. dusty violin case
oil paints
cigarette ash

6. soft-boiled eggs
hidden in cloth napkins

7. welts the size of licorice sticks

8. police at a traffic accident
police at the front door

9. sitting on the porch steps
waiting

Copyright © Monica A. Hand . All right reserved. Used by permission of the author

Monica A. Hand is a poet and aspiring book artist. She is the author of Seven Seasons of Separation and Loss of Seven Seasons Lost(7 Hands Press, 2002), a limited-edition, hand-made book of haiku. Monica has received individual artist fellowships from the Maryland State and Montgomery County Arts Council. She is founder and director of Poetry Slam Academy, an in-school, after school and Saturday program for middle-school and high school youth interested in writing and performing poetry. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with her two teenage children and works full-time for the U.S. Postal Service as a Public Relations representative.

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