Synchronicity

Synchronicity Remember now the boy setting out in the blue noon of July, his destination a mile down this dusty gravel road to Ollie Bradshaw's store: day by day he measures these distances from neighbor to neighbor, striking the pace just right to arrive even with the white frame houses through whose open windows the next song from WNOX Mid-Day Merry Go Round spins out on these shimmering heat waves past the picket fence toward the cool patch of maple shade, the needle point of his hearing tuned to the twang of bluegrass, never a beat missed in this step by step alignment of arrival to song, the last number rising above the opening whine of screen door as the boy steps in. -Jeff Daniel Marion ...