The Trip to Brooklyn Misremembered as a Roller Coaster Ride

What starts as a typical car ride can lead to the up and down emotions of a roller coaster ride.

April Lindner is the author of two collections of poetry, her first, Skin, was winner of the Walt McDonald First Book Prize from Texas Tech University Press. She is also the author of three young adult novels and has edited several anthologies. She is professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. Permission granted from author to read poem.