The cop starts the car, turns carefully
around, and I rack my memory for the right
phone number. When Grandma Marie answers,
relief floods through me, and I rush to tell the story
she is so not expecting to hear. I hang up.
“My grandpa will come get me in the morning.”
Hunter
CHRISTMAS DAWNS SILVER
It’s the way crisp sunlight
plays on the new snow,
all sparkling. Clean. The sky
is clear. Brilliant blue.
And I am up way too early.
I wasn’t the first one up.
Scott was off at daybreak,
on his way to Bishop to collect
Summer. Surprise!
Guess who was coming
to Christmas dinner, only to
be waylaid by a Hummer.
Guess she and some guy
named Kyle were lucky
enough snow had fallen
to soften their rollover. Some
cop named Officer Strohmeyer
insisted on talking to Kristina.
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Mom got on the phone, and
when the guy found out
who she was, he went all star-