old letters in a shoebox
winter sunlight
hanging on
Author: Roger Jones
Professor of English at Texas State University in San Marcos, where he serves on the MFA poetry faculty. Published four collections of poetry and served 2009-12 as poetry editor of the Texas Review. Recent work: Familial (2015, Finishing Line Press); Goodbye (Snapshot Press, 2017). @haibunation (Twitter).
Fallow
I always wondered who planted them in the neighboring field, a double row of yellow daffodils, up each spring, winding toward nothing, as if arriving at an invisible
I find an old letter
from my mother
dead four years —
we’re doing fine, she says;
we’ve had a little rain