Cabildo Quarterly online: "Getting The Mail," by Bruce Pratt.

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Getting The Mail.

I have seen see her at the Post Office

waiting to sign for a package,

buying a page of stamps,

or hunched down in the lobby

struggling with her box key.

Once when I offered my help to wrest

the tangle of flyers and bills from her box,

she said,…