“Never Childhood to a Child,” by Peter Orner

“Never Childhood to a Child,” by faculty member Peter Orner, was recently featured in the Paris Review blog. Read an excerpt below:

Never Childhood to a Child

“Never childhood to a child,” Marianne Boruch says, and I think of my daughter when she’s sad, how she wanders around the front yard with her hands in the pockets of her coat. The distance between myself at the kitchen window and her out in the yard…”

Read the rest of this piece here: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/03/16/never-childhood-to-a-child/