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Marking Time

John K. Teaford

A writer's eye on the cumulative passage of time.

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Late . . .

Snow on the haybarn roof comes early, whispering winter’s fearful warning: “Late.”

Icy puddles on the gravel road say I’m late for the season, late for the test, late for the chores that should’ve been done—summer’s hoses lie frozen on the...

7 months ago
3

Broader . . .

Right in the middle of things, Dad’s life slid out from under him. Home, career, livelihood, identity: all stripped away in the fall of the Cuban government in 1959. Batista was out, Castro was in, and the property of resident Americans—car...

a year ago
4

Fix

Little things affect big things . . . fix the little thing first. Even when it means pausing the big work, driving the bumpy mile back to the workshop, hoping to replace the tiny pin that plugs the hole that secures the shaft that completes...

a year ago
3

Dust . . .

There's noise out there—thunder rolling just beyond horizons, even in this season when storms of summer are still many months away.

There’s resistance out there— filings of journalists, warblings of news anchors, pen-scratchings of la...

a year ago
2

Song . . .

Outside new windows a robin sings the morning, irregular notes wandering up, then down, then up, then down. Familiar as soil and skin, it sounds like home out there. But home I left behind long ago, back at the beginnings roads that long I'...

a year ago

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