Roger Jones
Random Recollections
These things can go a very long time back – sixty years at least. Some of them you recall with clarity as if it had happened a few years ago. You don’t know what to do with them. They are like used clothes abandoned in a second-hand store. No one interested to buy. They are like old items in an antique store chock full of jeans, dishes, books, jewelry, furniture, lamps, keepsakes, watches, Depression glass, sweaters. All of them noisy with their specific times and experiences. But quiet now on their shelves this rainy afternoon.
a dusty envelope at home: my old roommate’s thirty-page letter— that summer we each complained nothing was going on
About the Author
Roger Jones teaches at Texas State University in San Marcos. His haibun collection Goodbye was published by Snapshot Press in 2017.