Told and Untold Fortunes
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My mother and I are gypped by our fortune cookies. Crisp protrusions break at the bend. The jagged halves rest in our palms near folded lifelines, and we're told in scant print what we already know about being practical, cautious and wise. We want an inch of truth, ancient wisdom, revelation on a white slip about the future for us, in New Orleans, months after the levees collapsed with the ease of the cookies we hold.
4-3-06
Gina Ferrara
Gina Ferrara is a fifth generation New Orleanian. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including Poetry East, The Briar Cliff Review, and Meena. Her chapbook, The Size of Sparrows, published by Finishing Line Press, is scheduled for release in December, 2006.
