We Knew Our Parents

We learned to play house in his St. Bernard’s one outside. Come home from work, ask what’s for dinner (we knew spaghetti and meatballs), whose turn to wrestle with the kids and put them night-night.

Then, how do we go to bed? We knew our parents slept in the same bed, so we should do that without our shirts—we had a blanket right there.

When not teaching at the Community College of Denver, Brian Dickson avoids driving to connect with the quotidian around him, hang and shoot hoops. He is also an associate editor of New Feathers Anthology. Past publications include two chapbooks, In a Heart’s Rut (HighFive press), Maybe This is How Tides Work (Finishing Line Press), and one book, All Points Radiant (WordTech, Cherry Grove Editions) and various journals, most recently Progenitor.