Family Story #4
Ron and Trever, 10 and 8, are naked playing
in the back pasture making a mud dam
in the crick to create a pool; their cousin Carl
has arrived from afar dressed in fancy pantaloons
befitting a special visit; he’s sent down to the crick
where his cousins promptly pelt the stranger with mud
he imminently strips naked, joins the fight, surely glad
to be rid of his party clothes. That cousin grows up to
be an honored director at the Library of Congress.
his mud-pelting cousins live okay lives, too.
This article appears in District 186 report card was a “gut punch”.
