Saying Goodbye

Part VI

Ordinary Days

written by: Doug Stanfield (Hemmingplay)

@hemmingplay

She had wanted to

sell the house.

She thought

he'd go first

leaving her alone
to deal with the
money pit.

Everything happens

on an ordinary day.

A plane full of

families falls out of

a clear blue sky.

A young mother dies in a
freak traffic accident

on a country road after
dropping her

daughter at school.

A diagnosis changes everything,

dropping without warning,

from a clear December sky.
The next morning he wakes before dawn,

listens to her breathing,

It all seems normal.
The sky's still dark.

All the years of

ordinary days have come

to this.

What will it be like,

he wonders, to

walk through these rooms

when her voice has gone silent?

Re-publication as part of the series (originally published 3/29/18)

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Doug Stanfield (Hemmingplay)

OCTOBER 2016 AUTHOR OF THE MONTH at Spillwords.com

“Hemmingplay,” is the pen name of the youngest son of a teacher and a nurse who grew up on a family farm in western Ohio. He has had a few disreputable occupations, including newspaper reporter and editor, and public relations flak, but is trying to make amends for his sins now by writing poetry and fiction.
His desire to write in these genres never really went away. When his children were safely off making their own mistakes, he turned on the computer one day, stared at the screen for a long time, and began again.
He has published three books so far: "Mermaid Sisters: First Dive", a children's book on iTunes/iBook; "I Came From A Place of Fireflies" published as a paperback and Kindle on Amazon; and a new book of poetry, "Snowflakes & Ashes: Meditations on the Temporary" (Gatekeeper Press) on Amazon, Barnes&Noble, iBooks, Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and a few others.