Timmy T Jones

neighbor

mister wagner

in his buttoned sweater

at dusk

watering his lawn

i remember he had

a little mustache

and a receding hairline

but he probably didn't

he was old and strange

and could have been any age

between twenty-five

and eighty-five

i watched him

unsuspected

from my own shadows

and his wife

came out on the porch

herself a shadow

in the twilight

and said

hurry up

it's almost time for star trek

Timmy T Jones lives high on a windy hill, and watches the leaves fall.