Good trip back home? she asked
home
had always been where his parents lived
he hadnt made one for himself
Yes Im filing it under Wonders Never Cease
Never’s a mighty long time.
It is it is
If I may, what wonder, wonders?
Singular Turns out I have a cousin who is a bearded
woman
She called me keezen I said wha Keezen cousin I said Like kissing cousins an I kissed her
Your beard tickles
I get tha every time.
Didnt wanna snap your streakhappy
to hear Its a nice beardnot
scraggily full yet softdowny
Thank you. she stroked it thumb index finger beginning under
her nose running outward to the corners of her mouth then her hand fully
employedchin in palm then stroking downward
and finishing thumb and index meeting at
her throat
I
used to shave it off every day, what a pain in the ass, then when I did let it
go, kept it trimmed, I was impressed, it’s a goodlooking beard.
It is suits your facemakes your eyes
pop their green compliments its tawnybrown
Thank you.
Yare welcome Were polite arent we
A family trait.
Yes.
Understand you live in Tennessee
Appalachia, near Tennessee Valley,
lot like Ukraine.
Thas a curious distinction
Raises eyebrows.
Raised mine
It did.
Small town
Yes, village, I’m a teacher. I understand you live in a small town, rural
California.
We have small in common keezen
she laughed You’re learning.
You taught me
Do you make the
family picnic often
Apparently, I understand, as
often as you since you moved from Illinois.
Yes first time in almost thirty
years though I was here for the first the
first twentysix
I was here once as a little girl,
this is my first time since.
Im happy we coincidedwhich isnt to
say a coincidence I don believe in that
Neither do I.
Listen . . we have to work the crowd . .
.
. The family . .
.
. Is there a difference?
No
Anwere outliers
Outliers. I hadn’t thought of that. You’re right.
We is
Maybe when the picnic breaks up we
can get a beer Id like that
I’d like that too, keezen.
they embracedkissed again then
entered separate throngs family all
Kissin keezens
early AMish Day-between-Two-Ts, 10 8. 22
1122, Day-between-Two-Ts
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