- “Home Training” by Bruce A.
- Jacobs
I remember how they clung
to the white door of the Frigidaire:
lessons that swung in and out
with every trip for baloney
or green Jell-O.
- “Intelligence is like a river:
the deeper it is,
the less noise it makes.”
“Do unto others as you
would have them do unto you.”
To an eight-year-old, they seemed
to spread from the kitchen
like flat snails that traveled
by night, affixed themselves
at eye level, surprising us
as we climbed stairs
and turned corners.
- I had not yet read about
white men with guns in India
or declared boycott on church.
- My grandfather held it
straight through from Toledo
to the Voting Rights Act.
- I did not know how
the chas...
Hometraing 
