If that man were you – a video

ThisYouTube video is a reading of an excerptfrom In the Context of Love.

Second-person Narrative

Angelica talksto (the absent) Joe, recalling the time they drove down Route 21past the steel mills and factories into downtown Cleveland. The time setting is in the mid-seventies.

If that man were you…

“Cuyahoga Iron Works, Republic Steel, and Cleveland Steel & Tubes pumped the blackest, most foul-smelling smoke into the sky, but the open-hearth furnaces fascinated me. Flaming tongues rose from o...