Buckle on the Leather Belt
I had dreams of being bright a shining gold glimmering mark of distinction yet your raised arm and downward swings left impressions of me raw and red and through the years their childhood memories...
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Fed Up Breakfast
Mom puts the plate in front of me but I am too hungry for biscuits to see her as anything but the bringer of food the washer the dryer the back of the house whether she smiles as she pours the coffee...
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Final Cleanout
You wanted to say so much yet didn’t but called for a dumpster to toss their life their boxes and boxes of this and that their knick knack bric-a-brac their photos of strangers...
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I’m Not Qualified to Ride the Bus
The farm kids seemed oblivious of the silage scent they bussed to class and though they suffered the cold taunts and teasings of us city kids truth be told at the end of the day I...
View ArticlePenny Loafers
George Henry Bass was the maker of Norwegian ‘Weejuns’ penny loafers able to make both Dean and the King look cool as those Ivy League students too lazy to find their socks two pennies for their...
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Sting in the Compliment
Sarcasm becomes you he said with a tilted grin but I’m not sure if that accolade was scorn distain or mockery so kudos for your zinger here’s a prickly pair of stinging sweetness coming right back at ya
View ArticleCanned Goods
It’s a mistake to hit your brother on a shopping day for Momma holds the opener and the spoon and there are only so many cherries in the fruit cocktail and all your “sorry”s can’t produce another.
View ArticleVenetian Blind
light through the slats as the day closed in breath through clenched teeth lingered with skin morning mother smiling lunch packing fool and I none the wiser on my way off to school
View ArticleDeep in the Hamper
They meant well with their casseroles and photo books but the walls closed in as the hole in our lives grew bigger and bigger and life went on day after day till Saturday’s laundry revealed the brandy...
View ArticleBest Buy at the Drive Up
He no longer drops his head on the steering wheel and sighs as his tears sogs his Big Mac for these Friday trade-the-kid specials are now as routine as the teen at the takeout who knows without asking...
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