Tag: spring

• Pink Bow Untied

  

  Rain would have been more fitting. Clouds. Torrential downpours. Some freak hurricane. Not this nurturing warmth that was carried in the breeze along with the songs of springtime robins. The boys were out with their father picking up new fishing poles and getting something for lunch. Patrick felt it best that Isabella, his wife, the…

  Dan Metzger

  July 14, 2017

  Fiction, Scene, Short Story

  alcohol, baby, children, creative writing, darkness, family, father, friendship, home, house, loss, love, miscarriage, mother, motherhood, pain, relationships, sadness, scene, separation, soup, spring, tears

• In the Absence of Swans

  

  Boston, March 2015. The garden awakens from a winter deeper than any in recent public memory. The last in a line of four girls seated on the pond’s perimeter screams dramatic fury as winged bodies, en route to plunder the thawing earth, whisk behind her head. “Where do the swan boats go in the winter?”…

  Dan Metzger

  August 23, 2015

  Fiction, Short Story

  birds, boats, Boston, Boylston, Boylston Street, ducks, father, garden, Massachusetts, mud, pond, public, Public Garden, Robin Williams, Salinger, season, son, spring, swans, Tony Soprano, winter

• Nature’s Farthings

  

  An unending summer is as rare as a winter wont never to cease. Spring grasses are ever wet and a phantom chill assails autumn gusts. To live where we lived for our sole year, where nature endows ample and nearly equal time to each of the quarterly climes indeed molded the memory of how the…

  Dan Metzger

  August 13, 2015

  Fiction, Gallimaufry

  autumn, creative writing, Fiction, love, nature, outdoors, season, seasons, spring, summer, sun, winter