IT WAS A DARK AND PANT-Y NIGHT
(For Katdish: That’s what she said)

A One-Act Play
SCENE: Adults stretch out on couches in living room, engrossed in their own activities. The room is silent, as children have gone to bed. The man reads (final Harry Potter novel). The woman clicks and twitters her way around her new toy, [...]

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A sunbeam, more powerful
Than the clouds
That try to contain it,
Paints a line of light
Across the living room floor.
And upward in the beam
Tiny particles spin
through still indoor air
Like principal dancers
In a microscopic ballet.
I blink. Black letters fade
Into white background.
Pupils contracting, I peer
At a screen of liquid crystal,
Peppered with dancing dust.

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I’ve been struggling to write these last [...]

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So Charlie and I were chatting about where we’d be living after all the kids left the nest.
Would we stay here, in the country on eight acres of Georgia clay? Consensus: Only if we had enough disposable income to pay some person(s) to take care of the property. Unless the economy turns right around and [...]

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