Viscous Verses - THIS PATIO
By Art and Letters - Ben Mazur & Raquel Balboni for Boston Compass (#128)
October 16, 2020
THIS PATIO
The man said,
“What are you going to do
with your mother’s bureau?”
in a French accent
to presumably his wife and I
asked myself, ‘Have you been
hugged lately?’ This
the essence
of childhood and Vick’s
Vapor Rub. Consider
the stunned mind,
its new clock
as I wait for a glass
of Rioja. My shoulders
tense from the vroom
of a passing pick-up
as the two
couples, also on this patio,
go on and on
about real estate.
—Kevin McLellan--author of Hemispheres, Ornitheology, {box}, Tributary, and Round Trip--lives in Cambridge, and you can find out more about him here: www.kevmclellan.com
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