Still On The Line

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language. - Thoreau

as mom hung laundry

i handed her the clothespins

fond memories dried

Author's Note

"We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light." - Thoreau

Reviews

[Samuel Dickens]

So sweet this is. Mom often had me and/or my younger brother help her with the clothes line. And when I think back those whites against the blue sky was such a striking image. There was that clean smell also.