Matthew Levine and Robert Haydon Jones
Matthew Levine Sunday Inspiration piece Squirrel…Lark…Lucky. by Robert Haydon Jones Response A very small, very young squirrel’s frozen profile froze my glance into a long look and held that pose so god damn long that I banged the half‐open screen door to my roof deck just to get it going – and, boy, it skittered and it shocked me with its bushy tail that felt more burly than bushy ‐‐ and I’m telling you the squirrel was very young. And then a red-breasted lark somehow flew in the open downstairs door (our dog is very, very old) and my wife was shrieking like it was a mouse or me with a fresh sin ‐‐ and the lark flew right on up the stairs and my shrieking wife followed ‐‐ and the happy ending is the lark pecked at itself in my bathroom mirror and then flew away out that same screen door that I had rapped to scare the squirrel. I remember the red breast on the lark made it seem very vulnerable. I went on back to my chair and started to finish my morning coffee when it occurred to me that I was very lucky that the men who molested me, all those years ago, when I was a boy, didn’t kill me. The more I think about it ‐‐ the luckier I feel. —————————————————— Note: All of the art, writing, and music on this site belongs to the …
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