“A Woman, Mowing the Grass”

Nov 10, 2021 · by Editor

On a deep-green April afternoon, Oriental poppies at the height of their orange perfection, my daughter draws with chalk on the driveway while I begin mowing the last section of lawn. I turn a wide arc around the maple tree, the mower’s metronome thrum silencing the paws of the neighbor’s dog. She races to the curve of my calf and sinks in her teeth. I yelp and kick away the yellow lab. Her owner rushes across the cul-de-sac and grabs her collar, hauling her back and apologizing. “But, you know,” he says, the dog whimpering at his tight hold, “this […]

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