Local writer Michal Mahgerefteh shares two poems with us. “Frozen in a Mask of Calm” and “The Childless”

“[Your mother] created you, so you always owe her and can never really repay the debt. Being born is like asking Don Corleone for a favor.”  – Dennis Miller * My mother tells me that is wasn’t her intention that my older brother and I be born only sixteen months apart. “But,” she adds. “It [...]