For Love of My Pet, Betsy
by Robert M. Katzman © April 30, 2012 (my 62nd birthday)
Long ago
Her thin back
to the wide murky
Fast-flowing
Mississippi River
*
Her long
White-blond hair
Tousled like
Autumn Hay
In the cold river’s wind
by Robert M. Katzman © April 30, 2012 (my 62nd birthday)
Long ago
Her thin back
to the wide murky
Fast-flowing
Mississippi River
*
Her long
White-blond hair
Tousled like
Autumn Hay
In the cold river’s wind
by Robert M. Katzman © 4/17/12
*
Spring 1966
Sixteen
Need a job
Wandering hot streets
I spy
Baskin-Robins!
A sign:
Help Wanted
Mandarin Chocolate Sherbet
Mint Chocolate Chip
Dark Chocolate
Jesus!!!
Panting
I chance it
Walk in
And see her
An older woman
Twenty-two
Short
Big brown eyes
Built
Name tag: Miriam
Ok
They don’t have to pay me