Notes on a Silencing

by Lacy Crawford

Candace

??

Nina,

??

Years later I learned which girl’s terrible mononucleosis, so severe it had sent her home for a term, was actually the third trimester of a pregnancy. I

“Mutt and Jeff,”

Candace

Margaret Smith or Daphne clark

Ms. Royce,

Ms boesch

(If you’re wondering if she ever called out locs or

dreads or braids, the answer is of course no.)

Reid!”

Jess,

Miller!”

“B...

Budge,

brilliant ballet dancer would

Tripler pell

“Johnny Devereux.”

Carly walker

Leighton Huhne

Andy light? Taylor Kirkpatrick?

Timothy Macalester.

Rob Seamans?

Coach Schiff,

Astley

Kelly Clark,

Marion,

Radley.”