Tom Painting
Divination
If my father had lived he’d by ninety-six, which tells you something. So why is it that I still see myself as his little boy trying to gain the approval of a brooding man who checked out long before I made my way in the world?
distant thunder one ear turned to the wind
About the Author
Tom Painting teaches junior high at the Paideia School in Atlanta, Georgia. Since 2000, his students have had winning haiku in the Nicholas Virgilio Memorial Haiku Contest. His own work has been widely published and anthologized.
Yes, the question, unanswerable, must hang in the air and the little boy who searches, returns to you for this, your only answer. Extraordinary writing. Thank you.
Yours truly,
Donna Fleischer