Thank you

He bought this 1957 Model 3100 Lawn-Boy when I was one, after he finished building our home.



It meets none of the current Consumer Product Safety Commission(CPSC) standards and miraculously, I still have all of my fingers and toes.

Fifteen-Minute Recess

With rust-smelling hands on the cold, rough bar
here settled wishes for a lasting hand of warmth
reflected and cast from the sunshine of her in late winter
(long shadows wound around the howling metal)
I wonder if she, would remember the yearn
or would it matter that a favorite flannel and faded denim
were the whispers of desire without ever knowing