The Visit/5:
While
Ferlinghetti turned pages, enjoying "In Due Season" and Daniel snapped
photos, Pablo and I continued the conversation we began in Havana in 1960,
when the revolution was only 18 months old. We think of our 40-year exchange
of letters, and our long talks as just one on-going communication. Pablo
mentioned his mother's Sephardic roots. Lawrence looked up from reading.
The remark triggered Lawrence's memory of his Sephardic Caribbean aunt,
the telephone operator. She would call him as a child in New York in the
lilting accent of the islands and urge him to be a good boy. With all
this talk of the tropics, our café soiree ended with the hopes of continuing
this cultural exchange in Cuba. But will the US State department lift
the Cuba travel ban in our lifetimes?
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