Bryan Rickert
Inheritance
Being a poor subsistence farm girl after the Great Depression, I bet she thought she had struck gold the day she married him. A dapper gent with a bricklaying foreman job and a house in the city that didn’t have dirt floors. I wonder how quickly that changed when the drunken beatings started.
family tree my wife questioning how deep roots go
About the Author
Bryan Rickert lives in Belleville, Illinois. He is the editor at The Living Senryu Anthology. His first book of haiku, Fish Kite, is available through Cyberwit Publishing.