The Visit/5:
While
Ferlinghetti turned pages, enjoying In Due Season and Daniel
snapped photos, Pablo and I continued our ongoing conversation we began
in Havana in 1960, when revolution was only 18 months old. We think of
our 40 plus years of visits and exchange of letters, as just one continuous
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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