Abilities
His wife thinks he goes wandering in the park to watch the girls walk their dogs. She imagines
him redreaming the unbreakable legs, the jangling breasts that look forward and not down, hips
that have remained mindful of use, eyes that have not seen disillusion; their sway and tramp as
they manage to keep up with their pets, not burdening them like land anchors. But it is the dogs
he is watching: how, as two meet, they know instantly whether to frolic or fight. He does not
know how it is done, but he wants that ability in his life.
Ken Poyner‘s nine collections of brief fictions and poetry can be found at Amazon and most online booksellers. He spent 33 years in information system management, is married to a world record holding female power lifter, and has a family of several rescue cats and betta fish. Individual works have appeared in “Amsterdam Review”, “Analog”, “Rundelania”, “The Cincinnati Review”, “Best Micro-Fictions 2024”, elsewhere. www.kpoyner.com.
