Taking Care of Business
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Susan Moldaw thinks through who and what we leave behind in “Closing Shop.” In four poems including “Taking Care of Business,” John Popielaski muses on life and the mysteries at the intersection of the human and natural world. In Cynthia Zhang’s “a mother’s love (never dies)” a mother-daughter entanglement gets even more precarious, as the mother’s ghost haunts the edges of the daughter’s life, reminding her, of all things, to eat.
Photographing the harbor and hills of Camden, Maine, at the turn of the twentieth century, Theresa Babb (1868–1948) recorded both the intimacies of social life and her hometown’s industrial and seafaring traditions. What stands out most about Babb’s images is how they let us glimpse into a personal world of female friendship, captured in such a way that seems both timeless and strikingly modern. From Public Domain Review.
