I think Robbo chucked the first tart, but I copped it. Mrs Pugh saw me and threw me out. Stuffed a note in my pocket—“Your son is no longer welcome in Sunday school”—and pushed me out the door. I was wearing shorts. All the boys wore shorts, and it was sleeting. Pretty soon I couldn’t feel my thighs. They were spreathed red-raw by the time Mam answered the door. Dad got home from work just after.
one palm print larger
than all the rest—
Cueva de las Manos
is the author of Lessons for Tangueros (poetry), Marcel Malone
(novel), and Tick Tock (haibun collection). His haibun have been widely
published and anthologized. In 2019 he was elected into the New Resonance
community of haiku poets, and he is a haibun editor at Frogpond (journal
of the Haiku Society of America). Originally from Wales, he now lives in Chicago,
USA.
