The Deaf Way II Anthology: A Literary Collection by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Writers

Contents

v Contents Introduction ix Curtis Robbins No Rhythm, They Say 4 Empty Ears 5 Solo Dining While Growing Up 6 Learning Up Front 7 About the Tale of an Old Bay Fisherman 9 Hand Tied 10 Melissa Whalen The Noisy House 12 Christopher Jon Heuer The Hands of My Father 30 Bone Bird 32 Diving Bell 33 Holiday 34 Corresponding Oval 36 Listening for the Same Thing 38 Carmen Cristiu Leaves on the Water 59 Is It a Sin? 60 My Mother 61 Gallaudet Book 5/1/02, 9:55 AM 5 vi Gaynor Young My Plunge to Fame 63 John Lee Clark Q 70 Exuberance 72 Carl Wayne Denney Borrowed Time 74 Sibylle Gurtner May “if I could wish to hear well” 87 Sotonwa Opeoluwa The Victim of the Silent Void 90 Douglas Bullard Yet: Jack Can Hear! 122 Pamela Wright-Meinhardt When They Tell Me . . . 131 Silent Howl 133 A Letter to C. F. 139 Kristi Merriweather Be Tellin’ Me 143 Remember 145 It Was His Movin’ Hands 147 Gallaudet Book 5/1/02, 9:55 AM 6 vii Raymond Luczak How to Become a Backstabber 149 Depths of the River 158 Justine Vogenthaler Between Two Worlds 165 Cicadas Roar 167 2 Triple Ought 168 Willy Conley Every Man Must Fall 171 Salt in the Basement 184 The Cycle of the X-Ray Technician 187 The Perfect Woman 188 Tonya Marie Stremlau A Nice Romantic Dinner 190 Gallaudet Book 5/1/02, 9:55 AM 7 Gallaudet Book 5/1/02, 9:55 AM 8 ...