our roadside bedroom
originally posted Aug. 2, 2006
The people across the street are moving. We strolled past their house early this morning with our dogs. They’d put a bunch of free stuff by the side of the road, including a mess of books. Quite a few treasures among them – two Cormac McCarthy novels, Wolf by Jim Harrison, Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, two Barbara Kingsolvers, Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon and several artist’s sketch pads. There was also a bedside table with two water glasses, and a pair of pants draped over a chair. Chris and I sat on the grass, me reading, her flipping through sketch pages, the dogs curled at our sides. To the passing traffic, we must have resembled some sort of museum diorama -- The Modern Couple. After a few minutes, I reached over and switched off the light, listening to the trucks rumble through our bedroom.
The people across the street are moving. We strolled past their house early this morning with our dogs. They’d put a bunch of free stuff by the side of the road, including a mess of books. Quite a few treasures among them – two Cormac McCarthy novels, Wolf by Jim Harrison, Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, two Barbara Kingsolvers, Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon and several artist’s sketch pads. There was also a bedside table with two water glasses, and a pair of pants draped over a chair. Chris and I sat on the grass, me reading, her flipping through sketch pages, the dogs curled at our sides. To the passing traffic, we must have resembled some sort of museum diorama -- The Modern Couple. After a few minutes, I reached over and switched off the light, listening to the trucks rumble through our bedroom.
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