Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts & Letters Volume 4, Issues 1 & 2

! LUCILLE LANG DAY TOYS IN MY HOUSE On the stereo cabinet in the living room, a black metal steam engine my grandfather—who came to California from Paterson, New Jersey, by train— played with in the 1880s, when women wore bustles and every year more and more tracks were laid Eighty-four glass marbles in multicolored swirling shades in