Yearly Archives: 2008

anonymous

I knew the two pots of perriwinkle— narrow suspicious leaves, shy purple blossoms— but the rest of the greenhouse specimens were really strangers to me; I didn’t know a mauve one from a red one, nor a geranium from a … Continue reading

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lawn at dawn

Framed by our kitchen window he would ride his garden tractor around his yard next door cut the grass in casual swoops around the tree along the wire link fence monotonous passes smiling at some thought contained within the white … Continue reading

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hiatus

little brothers sleeping twisted in blankets and sheets like free-falling stars and tentacles still as a portrait gentle as a cyclone ready as a nail metaphor for tomorrow in our silent pre-dawn house

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