Splitting Image

by Rosmarie Waldrop

...this part of her husband’s explanation. She was thinking. Her mind was racing with the thought that there was now enough money to send Algo to school, that she had to decide whether she wanted him to go as well if she wanted to broach the idea to Lashko. The school was twenty miles away. Algo would have to board. The implication in Lashko’s statement about Algo’s help was the boy had made them richer than even her husband hoped they might become. And here she was thinking about sending him away the moment Lashko had produced his first winning harvest. To celebrate Lashko bought a beast and a carriage. He didn’t spring for anything fancy. He was a farmer, after all, and he knew this year’s crop didn’t guarantee the next. To save on the cost, ninety percent of the cost of a normal beast to be precise, he decided... [ Original story illustration (gouache) and handwritten text.]

60 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Rosmarie Waldrop (born August 24, 1935), née Sebald, is a contemporary American poet, translator and publisher. Born in Germany, she has lived in the United States since 1958. She has lived in Providence, Rhode Island since the late 1960s. Waldrop is coeditor and publisher of Burning Deck Press, as well as the author or coauthor (as of 2006) of 17 books of poetry, two novels, and three books of criticism.