#the gate

The Gate (1987) dir. Tibor Takács

by Marie Howe

I had no idea that the gate I would step through to finally enter this world

would be the space my brother’s body made. He was a little taller than me: a young man

but grown, himself by then, done at twenty-eight, having folded every sheet,

rinsed every glass he would ever rinse under the cold and running water.

This is what you have been waiting for, he used to say to me. And I’d say, What?

And he’d say, This — holding up my cheese and mustard sandwich. And I’d say, What?

JET Magazine, May 17, 1973

Cover story on Frank Wills, "UNTOLD STORY OF BLACK HERO OF WATERGATE!" by Simeon Booker