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JOY’S SHARE
“To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”—Mark Twain _____ They brought along the cardboard carton recycled many times. In it, eggs of various kinds and colors: some white, some brown, others a yellow tan of almost-green with brown flecked specks, and others still brown with […]
YOUTH OF GAME
They played together in park, on field, feeling but not acting age. Cuts and shifts, bumps and body checks of friendly contact and competition, fast breaks on open nets when other became too winded to keep chase. They laughed, and they smiled playing on, in youth of game that restored their spirits to […]
ANSWERED PRAYER
“I am living an answered prayer,” I remind myself—sitting on a bucket, shagging balls as my son throws from a homemade mound into a homemade strike zone and backstop. He’s just home from practice and still wants to play. “Dad, do you want to watch me pitch?” he asked when […]
YELLOW-BLUE
Tent of her nipples through summer shirt, raised and drawn in cool of April morn’s yellow-blue; bare of her legs in length and light, hip drawn and edged in yellow of sun, front shadowed in before; hold of their hands, fingers’ interlock, prints’ press into hand back of the other; smiles of lips and […]