Generation

GENERATION / Philip Booth A bald fifty-some, shaving in his dead father's nickel-plated extensible mirror (patented 1902), the father, stripped to bathe, notes his bare grandson studying again, from four-year-old eye-level, the old primary stem, hanging out from the applepouch where he remembers his father's, presiding over a wad of wirehair. He shaves considering all the trouble. The Missouri Review · 33 ...