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Out Lantern & Wren
Blackberry Winter
When the dogwoods bloom and then it freezes, Mama called it blackberry winter: a song about grief coming back after spring has started, and the old saying that the cold is what sets the berry.
Out Vow & Timber
Crumbs in the Back Seat
A duet about the loud years of a marriage: practice running late, supper from a sack on the way to church, cleats drying in the back glass, and gladly taking the crumbs in the back seat.
Out Vow & Timber
We Still Pray Out Loud
Two plates at the table now that the house is quiet: a husband and wife who have prayed out loud at supper for years, even through the hard year they had no words for each other.
Left the Light On
A man comes home at two in the morning after four years gone and sits in his truck in his mama's driveway, working out what to say, but she has left the porch light on every night, and all she asks is whether he is hungry.
Out Vow & Timber
His Room
Their son loads his truck by seven and leaves home for good, and afterward a husband and wife stand in the doorway of his empty room, not ready yet to call it the guest room.
Out Vow & Timber
Bulb by Bulb
On their first Christmas Eve with neither grown child home, a husband and wife sit on the kitchen floor twisting the bulbs of the light string from their first apartment, one at a time, and she finally tells him what she never said about the year they quit talking.
Saturday Dad
A man who can hang a door and back a trailer through a gate cannot get his daughter's braid straight, so she shows him once more before her mama's car pulls in at six, he practices on three strings nailed to his bench at work, and she wears it crooked into town.
Out Vow & Timber
Hand on the Dash
A father rides the passenger side while his fifteen-year-old learns to drive, one hand braced on the dash the way his own father rode, and the granddad at the back window lays his good hand flat against the glass.
Ninety Days
A man three months sober is called up in a church basement for his ninety-day chip, Joe says a bad penny always turns up, the room claps, and he goes home, makes a sandwich and tastes every bite.
Call My Brother
A man sits in his truck behind the hardware store with his phone in his hand, rehearsing an apology to the older brother whose tools he pawned six years ago, his number still saved under Bub, and the song ends with the phone ringing.
Daddy's Bible
After his father's funeral a man is given the old man's Bible in a grocery sack and finds his own name in it in blue ink, a date beside it row after row, the last one nine days before his father died, when the son was six months sober.