Thinking Way Back - 2nd Day of Christmas

From Jack T. Scully’s  “Thinking Way Back,” published in Mianus Village 

 

Later that year

mother began reading

children’s classics

at bedtime

and even today

whenever I see a copy…

 

I smell cigarette smoke

and looking up

see a woman with

big hazel eyes

and tiny cracks

in her ruby red

lipstick.

Vermont Poet Jack Scully
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