GO TELL MOMMA by Duane L. Herrmann

Kindel Media

GO TELL MOMMA

Young man of 15   

working with father   

cutting, baling, hauling   

a field of hay   

on his father’s parents’ farm,   

work almost done   

mealtime approached;   

Granma would provide.

“We’ll be done in half an hour,”   

Father told his son.

“Go to the house,   

and tell Momma.”

The boy had never heard   

his father   

address his mother thus.

‘How sweet,’

he thought. ‘She is Daddy’s Momma.’ 

© Duane L. Herrmann

Duane L. Herrmann

With degrees in Education and History, Duane L. Herrmann has work published in print and online, in fifty-plus anthologies, over one hundred other publications (Gonzo Press, Tiny Seed Literary Journal, Page and Spine, etc), plus a sci fi novel, eight collections of poetry, a local history, stories for children, a book on fasting and other works, despite an abusive childhood with dyslexia, ADHD, cyclothymia, an anxiety disorder, a form of Mutism, and now, PTSD.  

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