About this story
In Lycurgus the name Griffiths opens the collar works and Sondra's set; Roberta's letters from Biltz do not stop. On Big Bittern the canoe goes over; even you cannot say whether the blow landed. A clothier's tag in the wet suit names you at trial; the last walk is thirty-one paces. Fifty-five chapters carry a Kansas City corner to a San Francisco one.
Who you’ll meet
Esta Griffiths, the sixteen-year-old sister of the boy the reader plays, holding the collection basket at her family's street-corner hymn meeting while she looks at the hotel across the road, with her mother and father working the corner behind her.
How it opens
Kansas City traffic divided around your family as if the mission occupied a stone in the stream.
Your father's portable organ waited beneath a street lamp among folded stools and hymn sheets.
Asa GriffithsClyde, set the stand where people leaving the shops can hear us.
Elvira GriffithsThe corner was granted for this work, and we need not apologize for using it.
Esta GriffithsWe could begin before the theater crowd reaches the avenue.
Choose
I will set the stand, but not directly under the brightest lamp.
The shops are closing; another corner may gather listeners.