Hometown Revisited

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by Jean Ryan

And there is the hillside
where we used to split a sandwich
and a bottle of wine and make love
under a willow humming with bees.

If time is a moving spotlight,
exalting only this moment,
then there we are still,
on a red-checkered blanket
just out of view.

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Jean Ryan

Jean Ryan, a native Vermonter, lives in Lillian, Alabama. Her stories and essays have appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies. She has also published a novel, LOST SISTER. Her short story collections, SURVIVAL SKILLS and LOVERS AND LONERS, are available online. STRANGE COMPANY, a collection of short nature essays, is available in paperback as well as digital and audio editions.

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