Bio

Ron Scully is a very retired bookseller living in the Pacific Northwest. After half a lifetime on the road, an authentic Willy Loman only funnier he has settled down to read and write. He practices haikai Dailey and has published widely in short form journals.
His latest chapbooks are The Roundhouse Clock by Yavanika Press and Between the Lines published by Alien Buddha.
Currently he is working on a play. Otherwise, his grandkids stave off his dotage.

A
cup
of half
and half with
six Sweet N Low stirred
gently to the right, everyday;
sitting across from each other, not a word spoken:
the
new
girl and
forty five
year old dock worker
sharing the same silences
filling the breakroom with the 15 minutes between them.
For
years
after
neither could
think of the right word;
reading the Sunday newspaper
all day at the table in their breakfast nook:doing
cross-
word
puzzles
together:
her 1 down:silver
his across: anniversery.
Together they share the language of still unspoken.