Tom Painting

Partial Clearing

I am the bully; the boy who talks big to impress the junior high girls. Who on his lonely walk home from school collects fallen leaves and presses them between the pages of a book.

cloud-break
the aftertaste
of rain

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About the Author

Tom Painting was born April 1, 1951, in Rochester, New York, and currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he teaches junior high humanities at the Paideia School. In addition to bird watching and making slow but steady progress on the acoustic guitar, he hopes to reach the highest elevation points in each of the lower 48 states