Old
Things Considered
River
Huffman
I
like old things. Large, musty houses reverberating music and laughter
of a
thousand family feasts;
Old cars, chromed and curvaceous, recalling Sunday drives through
countryside since vanished;
Corbelled buildings on Main Street, where men with hats and women
in skirts sat at oak desks and transacted business by methods
obsolete;
Esthetic movie theatres where light and shadow flickered across
screens in dramas taut and unoffending;
Churches, austere and well-proportioned, whose melodic bells were
the only break in Sunday morning silence;
And I like old people - wise and revered - wandering through cemeteries
in autumn, reminiscing with family and friends.
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River
Huffman is a musician, writer, collector of folklore and ghost
tales, and is currently at work on an anthology of supernatural
stories concerning the provenance of antiques.
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River Huffman