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Dear listener
I’m a silver-tongue
a washhouse
a veneer to your violence
an upside-down lamb.
War daily, peace flails in the furthest corners of happenstance.
She’s at the kitchen table, cutting apples up for snacktime.

Text by Jordan Scott. Prompt: 1967 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch “Operation Deckhouse Five” in the Mekong River delta.

Text by Christof Migone. Prompts: texts by Jordan and Kathryn plus the prompts they chose.

Text by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer. Prompt: 1907 – Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.

Todays Calls is part of the Phone Works series by Christof Migone. Website design by Endless Commons. Thanks to the Ontario Arts Council.