Those buttercups that ran along the walkway of your grandmother’s house, and the red begonias she dug out of the ground every September and brought into the warm kitchen, a woodstove, a little table with flowers on it. I could say this, hepatica in spring, green fire upon a common grackle’s wing, the first snow,…Read more »
Category: Porch
Laundry Porch
On this porch for years we had a wringer washing machine, a loud demoniac contraption that vibrated and thumped as it played our clothes. I toyed with it, but one day it ate my arm all the way to the elbow, suddenly, like a tame tiger that takes a moment to grab the child. Neighbors…Read more »