Gershon Wolf Poet Free verse

A Faded Polaroid Snapshot

Long, winding gravel driveway
  decrepit old Mercury station wagon
    parked there
    doors unlocked
    those big red buttons
    sticking up
     no seatbelts either
Tiger lilies blooming
  all-at-once, on  
  either side
  of the gravel
A few years later
  a cockeyed backboard
  appeared on a tree
    supporting an
    uneven, rickety
    basketball rim

Winters we spent shoveling snow

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L Milton Hankins April 17, 2021 at 10:10 AM Brought back a few memories here, GW. Thanks! Gershon Wolf April 17, 2021 at 8:14 PM Nothing like those faded memories coming back to life. Happy Sunday, Milt! ~ gw

Line Gauthier April 16, 2021 at 3:31 PM Love those polaroids ~ the stuff of memories ~ good one Gershon Wolf April 16, 2021 at 4:18 PM Yeah, me too, Line. ~ Not the 'Kodak Kid.' lol. Here's to those memories -- priceless.

Michelle Faulkner April 16, 2021 at 2:10 PM I remember my parents had a big red Thunderbird(?) I think it was, when I was a kid, it was so big I could lie down in the backseat (of course I was smaller then, too) Gershon Wolf April 16, 2021 at 4:25 PM Of course, cars were SO much bigger then too. A big sedan had seat-room comparable to today's minivans. Ah, to reminisce. Happy weekend, Michelle. ~ Gershon