Incident.
| Publisher | African American Review |
| Publication | African American Review |
| Subject | Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 1062-4783 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | v30 |
| Issue | n2 |
| Published | 1996-06-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | JoAnne McFarland |
the day of the accident we were waiting for the train on the elevated platform above westchester avenue / the avenue that never saw sunlight except filtered through the cracks of the tracks / its abstract fretwork on the cars below. we didn't see them run / see the birth of the thought / the oldest's decision to risk it / pulling his sister by the hand we only heard impact / heads jerked around / the sound that registers not in the rational mind but in the collective unconscious / the wrong sound that means the threat of death / the tribe mobilized / two children down / two of us...
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