A Brownstone in Brooklyn

By Alexandra Isacson

She was an old married woman with a lover & the tarot.  She had visions & talked to family ghosts & limped with polio.  She lost her voice & did not speak for years.  When she let her hair down, it looked like a mink stole resting on her shoulders.  Charles, the postman, came to her house & took her out, while her husband was home.  She sent cards & letters kissed with exotic postage.  When her lover & husband died the same year, she said she hated New York City and was left holding only the tarot death card.

 

About Alexandra Isacson