Wow, Gwendolyn Brooks’s essay about her mother is beautiful and bittersweet
— Dane Hamann | @donnyhamms.bsky.social (@donnyhamms) May 18, 2020
emphasis on sweet, yes, despite her opening line: “On Tuesday, March 14, 1978, at eight in the evening, two weeks after her ninetieth birthday, my mother stopped.”
Very glad to have taken time to read https://t.co/dLnGomJtDk