ALL THE POSSIBLE BODIES.

• Author: Pollock, Iain Haley

My alcoholic grandfather couldn't hold his money & passed a bad check. Hampton, Virginia, after Brown v. Board but before Selma's Bloody Sunday. After my grandmother died but before he moved the family North, back to the town of his birth. My mother saw her father cuffed & dragged from the house. The next day, by some miracle she never understood, he came home. Had he looked at the officers wrong, acted wrong, spoken wrong, been too familiar, been a few inches taller, been deeper voiced or darker skinned & for this had he caught a knee that night to the neck & not returned / perhaps my mother, needing to stay home & raise Aunt Joan & Uncle Keith, would have skipped college. Had she skipped college / perhaps she would not have gone for a Ph.D. Had she not gone for a Ph.D. / perhaps she would not...