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Florida Family Portrait
Judy Gelles
1996
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American photographer Judy Gelles has published three books: When We Were Ten (1997), Florida Family Portrait (2002), and Beach Boxes (2004). Her works are found in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and other collections. She received an Individual Artist Grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (1997). She lives in Philadelphia.
I saw my father drowning
In surging days.
His weak hand gave a last white flutter
In the distance—
And he was gone.
I kept on alone
Along the shore,
A boy still,
With small, thin legs,
And have…