What He Wore, What He Said, What He Did Grass-green Crocs, purple poly pants Flowery vines climbing over coral shirt Gamboled grin Deep dulcet voice. “You go first.” “No, you go.” Lopsided dance He sashays into the store I amble to my car Cock-a-hoop heart
About the Author: Fay L. Loomis, member of the Stone Ridge Library Writers and Rats Ass Review Workshop, lives a quiet life in the woods in upstate New York. Her poetry and prose are published in a variety of publications, including most recently in Kaleidoscope, Redheaded Stepchild, Down in the Dirt, and The Blue Mountain Review.
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Image Credit: Ben Shahn “Ohio farmer resting in car, central Ohio” (1938) Public domain image courtesy of the Library of Congress
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