Jim Plath — The Monarch Review

Paper Roses – Jim Plath

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 11:51 — 2 Comments

In late spring, when I was ten years old, my father received orders to return to sea.  In the fall of the previous year, my mother had taken a job as a cook in a nursing home to supplement the Navy’s meager pay and when Memorial Day came, she could find nobody to stay with me on my day-off from school.  I, like most children at that age, lived in an idyllic naiveté, wherein I believed that no more than some secret combination of promises and pleas stood between my parents and capitulation.  True to that form, I made my […]