Helsinki Postcard

Stephen Kuusisto wearing a fedora and trench coat, standing beside a dragon in Kyoto, Japan

Blind, alone, wandering a railway station, lost, and talking to strangers asking for help and they are silent.

Get on the wrong train.

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Taxi driver tells me he loves dogs more than his family.

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Winter announces it won’t ever give up. A raven walks on the ice.

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Three drunken men try to help my friend who uses a wheelchair by offering to lift her up a short flight of steps outside an inaccessible restaurant. Everything is wrong about this. But they are cheerful smelly men.

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The city embraces full darkness like a great musician.

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Author: stevekuusisto

Poet, Essayist, Blogger, Journalist, Memoirist, Disability Rights Advocate, Public Speaker, Professor, Syracuse University

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