Quondam

May 2013
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The girls generally ride the bus home from school.

They get home at about 4:00, maybe a little earlier.

Not so long ago, I stood with my afternoon cup of coffee and stared out the large front bay window into our neighborhood.  The sky had that weird greenish cast I associate with tornadoes, except …White spaces

    Mouth to the spigot

    I don’t want to talk about it.

    I am back.

    I don’t want to talk about it.

    Weird, though . . . having this time in which I was unable to access Pretty All True made me think about all that I have been missing.  I spend a lot of time here on my …Mouth to the spigot

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    Freezing wintry cold.

    I wait.  With the other children, but apart.  As always.

    At the bus-stop.

    I wait for the heavy doors to swing open, and I step up the black rubbery steps.  Out of the freezing wintry cold and into the only slightly warmer space of the school-bus.  Hurry down the aisle, stepping …Thumbprint