Author Archives: jonwolston

All day spent plugging holes… a mouse dashes past.

I’ll get a head start, I thought, racking up the days in New Hampshire rake some oak leaves stack some logs, except it’s bleak without the leaves yet and I wonder why I came until dusk when the sky puts … Continue reading →

I wish I’d stop whistling. It drives my wife nuts. I’ve got to do something. No ifs, ands, or buts. But birds seem to like it. They come closer it seems if I work in the garden and morning light … Continue reading →

I’ve driven past this church for years. Another ski buddy bites the dust. You’d never guess he was Catholic. His dad’s so deaf it’s pitiful. I wonder what the coroner came up with. My son thinks communion is mandatory. The … Continue reading →

Taking a breather I see cracks reappearing in the old brown floor.

A bee-hived surfeuse perches on top of her dark chocolate board. Jolly red pirates in tri-cornered hats count their glittering loot. A pregnant grenouille with a big green smile squats on a bittersweet lily pad.

At the Pompidou: movies of Nijinsky and Pollock spilling paint. Emerging exhausted into the anteroom, we spot the young mistress.

You’re different, I said. What do you mean by that, my soul answered. I still love you. Isn’t that the important thing? Your love is different, I said. More precious now than ever. My soul was silent for awhile. It … Continue reading →

Hallelujah! 14 c. Huzzah! 1573 Hooray! 1686 Wahoo! 1770 Glory be! 1816 Whopee! 1845 Yahoo! 1870 Whee! 1898 Hot dog! 1906 Yippee! 1914 Leap Day! 2012

Smoke from a chimney on a scribbled roof: a curly black line a pre-school proof of fire within of a hearth below in the purple dwelling we all bestow with love on our teacher with such delight! Later it’s apples … Continue reading →