Craftsman
Todd Copeland reflects on the gift of memory, tools, and family.
Todd Copeland reflects on the gift of memory, tools, and family.
In “The Catch,” Long offers the image of a fisherwoman, carrying the “stunned pewter” of her catch, to market. In “Esau’s Portion,” we are brought to the hospital cafeteria and the funeral potluck, where Long hungers for the memory of one lost: “what I lack is the thanks you made me take in, bowed down, at the end of any given day.”
A look at the current economic crisis through a Lukan parable.