My City Speaks

A young visually impaired girl and her father spend a day in the city, her city, travelling to the places they go together: the playground, the community garden, the market, an outdoor concert. As they do, the girl describes what she senses in delightfully precise, poetic detail. Her city, she says, ''rushes and stops, and waits and goes.'' It ''echoes'' and ''trills,'' and is both ''smelly'' and ''sweet.'' Her city also speaks, as it ''dings and dongs, and rattles and roars.'' And sometimes, maybe even some of the best times, it just listens.