1917 · Paul Marble Wood
Jack came up in the morning
and we went and got the cow
in. In the afternoon Papa
and I worked on the ditch
we got along pretty good
Papa worked on the ditch
in the morning
2001 · Lisa Barnes King

Tom is at the lake already. Mom and Pop are en route. I did not cross the fissured, brown prairie to reach the blue-gray rise of the Rockies. Gus and I worked on fractions. Wrote a thank you letter to the Kings. Plugged earphones into the computer and listened to Chopin through the long afternoon.