Relics of Time-Not-So-Distant

Remember when you could pick these up at nearly any restaurant, bar or hotel in town? Even politicians handed them out.

No One Plays Here Anymore

She was a little girl then, she had dolls and tea parties. But that was then, before the door and shutters were broken, when the window boxes were tended and pretty little flowers grew. She’ll be leaving home soon, to go to college, begin a career, start her own family. Then she’ll buy a cute little playhouse for her own daughter to play in…during the summer…for a couple years.

 

Old Friends

An old man interrupted his walk,
leaned onto his cane with crossed hands,
gazed into the extraordinary morning light
and remembered old friends.

Victim of Progress

An abandoned gas station on FM1017 between LaReforma and Linn, Texas