Summary

Wheel of Fortune

Smith describes a game she used to play in order to fall asleep. In the game, she would imagine a long series of squares leading to a tassel. She would then need to think of enough words that begin with the same letter in order to make it to the end of the tassel. The cowpoke ranted on the lack of value to Greek mythology in her dream. In the present tense, she sits in a park, watching pigeons eat her crumbs and a boy lift his younger sister to drink from the fountain. She then receives a letter, asking her to visit Frida Kahlo’s former home and give a talk. She had been wishing to enter Casa Azul since she was young, reading of it for the first time at 16 in Diego Rivera’s...