She sat on the dock with a fishing pole in her hands, her bare feet dangling down to the water, but not quite reaching, dressed in cutoff shorts and a red tank top that set off the pale white of her skinny arms and shoulders, her head topped off with a yellow hat, almost like [...]
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That Summer, at a Pond in Nebraska
Posted by Tom Busillo on January 12, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/01/12/that-summer-at-a-pond-in-nebraska/
Each Autumn in Nebraska
Always the Sunday morning before Halloween, when the leaves left on the trees are still the Fall rainbow of reds, oranges, and yellows, I get the supplies ready in the back of our powder-blue Ford pickup as you make our lunch in our small kitchen, and, after we put on our matching blue windbreakers, we [...]
Posted by Tom Busillo on December 29, 2011
http://monsterbegood.com/2011/12/29/each-autumn-in-nebraska/
The Trip to the Tree at Christmas
You set out with him in a blizzard, you in your Mighty Mac, him in his parka, workboots, wool hat, and holding in the firm grip of his thick black gloves an axe. Though only ten minutes have passed since you left the house, it seems like hours the wind’s been driving the snow into [...]
Posted by Tom Busillo on December 21, 2011
http://monsterbegood.com/2011/12/21/the-trip-to-the-tree-at-christmas/
Each Nebraska Winter
A good mother sews mittens on her children’s faces, not out of madness, but mostly love mixed with a small degree of guilt, for she has birthed six children all missing their tongues, instead having two tiny hands at the end of tiny arms jutting out of their perpetually opened mouths. And each Nebraska winter, [...]
Posted by Tom Busillo on December 13, 2011
http://monsterbegood.com/2011/12/13/each-nebraska-winter/
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