The Smuggs Chronicle – Part Five
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Fifth Day: August 22, 2013
Clouds fill the sky above Mansfield and Sterling. Sporadic rain falls. Mira and I enjoy an afternoon in. The sun soon breaks through. We eat her homemade salad and drink her latest creation: red wine mimosas.
intermittent rain
clatter of silverware on
empty porcelain
A day in “Bookland.” Soaking in Stephan Erickson’s Dust of Dreams. Where did the day go?
one sunbeam
flying off a dripping branch
mountain sparrow
Frankie races through the new obstacle course at the Fun Zone — his first visit of the season.
Goodtime Charlie, the Friendly Pirate, Billy Bob Bear and Mogal Mouse arrive for the kids dance party. It’s part of the indoor festivities that Smuggs hosts when the Vermont Country Fair is rained out.
Not that Frankie notices for long.
dance train
the boy races for
another slide
read from the beginning: Pre-Smuggs Insomnia, the Prequel
more by FRANK J. TASSONE
photograph by Kate Williams
