She spends her days slicing jamón y queso and wrapping it in wax paper tied with string: plain ham and cheese that would cost le
ss at the A&P, but it would not satisfy the hunger of the fragile old man lost in the folds of his winter coat, who brings her lists of items that he reads to her like poetry, or the others, whose needs she must divine, conjuring up products from places that now exist only in their hearts— closed ports she must trade with. –“The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica,” Judith Ortiz Cofer During which phrases would a performer most likely pause while reciting? Check all that apply. “she spends her days / slicing jamón y queso” “tied with string: plain ham and cheese” “the hunger of the fragile old man lost in the folds” “or the others, / whose needs she must divine” “in their hearts— / closed ports she must trade with”
