The Latch
After scraping eighty-three-year-old paint from four screw heads holding the latch in place on the studio door, and, having steadied the door on one out-thrust hip and running the pointed tip of a kitchen knife around the lock-box to break the seal of paint, your neighbor patiently removed each screw with the right-size, old-fashioned screwdriver he had brought and jiggled the lock free so he could pry open its metal back and fish out the broken spring, the…… More »




























