Excerpts from
P O R T R A I T S : P A R A B L E S
by Susan M. Schultz 2005 $3
Design by Josh Drechsler

from “The Untraumatized Man”:

“One imagines the untraumatized man playing ball with his son in the park.  It is just spring, and the purple and the yellow flowers blossom.  If the newspaper is his daily prayer, he has failed to utter it.  If there is an ethics of memory, his is incomplete.  If we are bonded by our trauma, he stands alone.  Guard the untraumatized man, for he precedes and follows us.”

Susan M. Schultz is founder and editor of Tinfish Press. more