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We are a group of writers based in Dorchester, Massachusetts.

In art history, pentimenti are painted-over images which reappear once the surface layer begins to fade. These ghostly images tell a story about the artist's evolving thought process.

We as writers mine our pasts, imaginations, and experiences to uncover our own pentimenti, the images that we paint over and hide but which eventually resurface one way or another. We come from different places and generations, but share a belief in the power of writing to challenge, heal, delight, and inspire.

Friday, February 10, 2012

Miss Edith



There is wisdom in her

The way she surveyed the room sitting proudly in her seat

I knew that behind the gentleness in her smile there were years of hard learned lessons

There is wisdom in her eyes

The knowledge and the stories that she could drop

I would love to sit at her feet with my head on her knee as she speaks her story gently to me

There’s wisdom in her face

Not in the lines that crease it but in the regal way she walks into the room

The past and the present came with her

I saw the future in her too

There’s wisdom in her hands

They way she gracefully folds them in her lap,

I wonder how many babies those hands have gently caressed, how many braids have been platted with those graceful hands

I saw the past, the present

and the future in her too

There is wisdom in her.
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