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PICTURES Joanna M. Weston

other places where the major led men into battle Portopallo in sunshine Vizzini coloured with flowers Ramacca's angry farmsteads Etna where he mailed a postcard to his son places of small terraced houses shell-torn and tangled write their names on photos men hold of my father but where are the pictures needed to paint him for myself – to put his final portrait on paper of my own? From A Summer Father (Frontenac House, Calgary Alberta 2006)

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