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Ellen Cantor

Poetry

Winter 1998

Flesh and Blood

By Ellen Cantor

Author’s Note: The italicized passages in this work are quoted without change from letters my father sent to my mother during World War II.   Omaha Beach, its towering cliffs, […]

Poetry

Winter 1998

What We Knew

By Ellen Cantor

If knowledge is power what collusion of human and physical forces stripped from my father the right to face his known and certain prognosis: terminal, progressive, but slow enough for […]