subtly time passes

                      coffee percolates  an apple sliced into eighths browns he read her letter again word for word his cadence matching the lifting mistthe earths exhale under the rising suns rays as they penetrated the crowns of the trees planted in a row one hundred years ago to create a windbreak

                                                                   a happy congress of mediators adorned with long generations of bird and squirrel nests and honey hives their roots plumbing fingering the earth probing busy parcels of ants worms burrowing in the loosened loam scurrying beetles the noiseless clattering legs of centipedes

word for word he read

                          sentences  phrases  admonishments  accusations  

he sighed

            he knew their long distance communications had run aground run afoul the skeins of their separate webs loosening 
           miscommunications fomented  missed communications  dissatisfactions    dissonance

he was more practised he had not lived as an adult within the confines of his family

she was entirely enmeshed and enthralled by hers

until she recently left its needy bosom

the earth mist was rising  it obscured the distant hills a palewhite sifting screen that could be projected on dully it reflected the flash of his match when he lit his cigarette

then he threw nothing else against it

there is no blame no animosity

sometimes things are misplaced or lost 

not intentionally as when they did as children

older children do it as well 

0753,  Thursday,  24  12. 19
1356,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  13  5. 20