1917 · Paul Marble Wood
I finished the drawer
in the morning. In the
afternoon I pulled weeds
in the turnip patch
mamma went to town
in the morning. Papa came
up in the afternoon. I kild
three chickens in the afternoon.
2001 · Lisa Barnes King

Took Tucker and Jake to the zoo this morning as promised. Saw a cow being milked by a machine; a tiger sleeping; gorilla children in chase; and, in an ultraviolet simulated night, a bat settling himself under his wing for sleep, feet hooked in the screened ceiling of his cage.