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DannyPoet

  1. 5-Back on the road the outside whistles its way in as we go, wondering if my knuckles will ever be that hairy.
  2. 4-These afternoons collect into one I can remember from the black and white where bright sun fades us in the foreground
  3. 3-Rope rounds the tree branch hanging on a swing while he meals inside on the big table/it smells like water here/a washed breeze
  4. 2-Truck in the grass/the doors slam heavy and imperfect/ cinnamon from the house as he boots up wood steps behind me and calls me kid
  5. 1-And if I stare comes the window rattle with the road/a seat springs metal and his hand/his grip on the wheel like mine holding this photo
  6. This week Monday through Friday, will be posting a serial called “Untitled summer.”
  7. 5-Mom came home with a gypsy girl to feed/Dad read and I kept quiet because through her thin white shirt was the round of my first nipple
  8. 4-Mom urged Dad to throw ball with me but he stayed heavy in his chair and she took to windy sighs in my direction whenever he was around
  9. 3-They said he built it all himself, a ground up guy/From nothing rose Dad/And when proud, his big block hands pat me awkward on the head
  10. 2-Dad raised me on the no son of mine diet of don’ts/No son of mine cries but I did and Dad flipped a loud newspaper while Mom snuck me coco
  11. 1-It was the year of peace and parking lot runaways, I rode in the backseat with Dad fisting get a job and Mom muttering shrill to stop
  12. This week Monday through Friday, will be posting a serial called “Awakened by a thinly veiled sun.” Stay tuned...
  13. Sleepaway camp summer so grown and alone shaken by a familiar timbre on the front lawn where his mom stood passing out cupcakes.
  14. Domino afternoon playing parkside with boys clicking tiles, their swift hand know how and table talk, a smooth bunch that age that way.
  15. He was a tough trolling for schoolyard squabbles, not like his folks who lived the communal and made him one third all household decisions.
  16. New kid with my lunch box I spied at the bus stop, okay for liking the same superhero but my friends called him fat so I used a paper bag
  17. He said his real parents were pirates on a gold boat about to send for him at any time, not the couple of quiets that never said hello to us
  18. We circus clowned and kicked around and I got sick of always getting tamed but he reminded me that it was his Dad that got the tickets
  19. His Dad didn’t show so to make it up to her son, they coned on the general store porch of splinter wood, summer melting on their fingers.
  20. He doorways away from full moon foolish night but before his disappear, a finger to the sky “I go because I want to not because I have to.”