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  1. Parker Owens
    You’re very kind in your comments. Easy melancholy is an apt description for the overall tone of this group. I hope they grow on you. Many thanks for reading.
  2. Parker Owens
    I’m glad these speak to you, and I join you in lamenting the loss of a friend. Distress is written about just such a hurt. The thought that you would re-read these is wonderful encouragement. Thank you.
  3. Parker Owens
    You’re most welcome. Thanks for reading!
  4. Parker Owens
    Thank you for reading these. You’re right, my dad was a wonderful man. He taught me tons of life lessons without explicitly doing so. Distress speaks to a wound that is still unhealed, a hurt that I may have caused. I grieve about it still. Thanks again.
  5. Parker Owens
    Relations Families are like an old attic where sepia toned memories lie asleep where afternoon explorers unpack them, unfold them and shake out their wrinkles to laughter before they’re discarded. Transformation On what day did I become my Dad; take on his rolling, stoop-shouldered gait, or match his raspy voice which yet crooned boyhood songs to children both amused and tolerant, a greying artifact
  6. Parker Owens

    en pointe

    Parker Owens commented on Mikiesboy's story chapter in en pointe

    My heart and hugs go out to you.
  7. Parker Owens
    You’re very welcome. The smiles these poems bring to you warm me too, like the sun. Thanks very much for reading them, and for your comments.
  8. Parker Owens
    Thank you very much for your kindness in responding to these two. For now, I’m glad of the change to cooler temperatures. Come January, I’ll be wishing I had bottled some of these days so they could be opened and re-enjoyed, like a fine wine.
  9. Parker Owens
    I’m glad these were perfect for your day.
  10. Parker Owens
    In the middle of that hot, humid spell, I couldn’t write a thing. When the heat finally broke, the words began to trickle again.
  11. Parker Owens

    Late August

    Parker Owens commented on Parker Owens's story chapter in Late August

    I’m delighted you liked that first image, and the last one, too. That moon was etched in my visual memory for weeks.
  12. Parker Owens
    I’m delighted you found them. I hope the colors haven’t faded.
  13. Parker Owens
    I’m very glad you felt it. That makes me smile.
  14. Parker Owens
    Your description of asters covered in bees made me wish I had been there too. Meadows are wonderful, deeply satisfying places, at least to me. Thank you for commenting on these.
  15. Parker Owens
    Weather Report Weathermen have said it’s gonna steam and parboil flowers and fauna, over-bright and hot and sweltry, perspiration on our peltry, turning shade a different color – brighter, yet a little duller – cooking insects, crisping grasses, sunshine like a thousand brasses, followed by some evening lightning; thunderclaps both loud and frightening, after which, some rains torrential should make streams more consequential,
  16. Parker Owens
    Welcome to GA. I’m glad you joined!
  17. Parker Owens

    Late August

    Parker Owens commented on Parker Owens's story chapter in Late August

    You’re very welcome for this recollection of autumn’s onset. There’s technically still a week of summer yet, but fall is definitely a reality now, whatever the calendar may say.
  18. Parker Owens

    Late August

    Parker Owens commented on Parker Owens's story chapter in Late August

    Your comment is a ray of dawn sunlight for me this morning. I’m glad you could see both moon and field and flowers in the pre-dawn light with me. Thank you!
  19. Parker Owens

    Late August

    Parker Owens commented on Parker Owens's story chapter in Late August

    Thank you! Here, the change in months meant changeable, uncertain weather. First sweltering, then chilly, then stormy, it all comes in waves from the west. I’m glad your weather is better now
  20. Parker Owens

    Late August

    Parker Owens commented on Parker Owens's story chapter in Late August

    You’re most welcome. Thank you for reading.
  21. Parker Owens

    Late August

    Parker Owens commented on Parker Owens's story chapter in Late August

    Thank you. The season is singing its beguiling song.
  22. Parker Owens
    Late August I walked out under an orange-rind moon rising over wood-clad hills shrouded in secret colors, coats which last but a season and cannot linger in the west wind’s embrace, with kisses rougher and more urgent than modest, mutable Virgo who waits her turn to appear and sing the ancient silver song of advancing time. And where my boots strayed, they covered themselves in the tears of summer grasses, weeping
  23. Parker Owens

    Chapter 22

    Parker Owens commented on Mikiesboy's story chapter in Chapter 22

    This is a beautiful, moving conclusion to this chapter in Matthew and Andy’s life together. You left none of the hurt behind, but showed how their love for one another let them work it into something different. We can imagine them happy and whole. This has been a fantastic story, and an instant favorite to which I will return again and again. Thank you.
  24. Parker Owens
    The sound and music are magnificent. Also, I wonder if Salieri could have envisioned this performance of his Requiem.
  25. Parker Owens

    Chapter 21

    Parker Owens commented on Mikiesboy's story chapter in Chapter 21

    What happened in this chapter rings so true to me: Matthew isn’t ready now for a deeper, more intimate connection with Andy, and he might never be. This isn’t the stuff of romance novels, and Andy cannot write himself into an outcome Matthew can’t be a part of, at least not yet. I feel for Andy’s wounded heart, but I’m glad he’s a decent enough guy to be friends with Matthew if that’s what the younger man wants.
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