Sixteen Inches On Center

By Anthony Buccino

Seeing a father through a grown son's eyes. The son of a World War II veteran looks at the 20-plus years they had together, the missteps, the missed opportunities, and the things that remain.

Sixteen Inches On Center

TALK MORE NOW

NOTHING LIKE MINE

LUMBER

BUTCHIE

PLENGE’S FARM

NEEDLE

MONEY IN NEWSPAPERS

AMERICAN BOY

WASHERS

BACK TO CHRISTINE

COWBOY OF OCTOBER

SAVING PIGEONS

KEEP ‘EM FLYING

INSIDE THE COOP FOR HOURS

SHOOT THE BREEZE

FLYING PARTNERS

TROPHIES

BURNING LEAVES

AZURE AQUA CLUNKER

DOGS RUN FREE

ROBIN

SHOEMAKER

SO CROOKED

WAR MOVIES

PINOCHLE

PIGEON MAN SECRETS

WHAT PA DIDN’T SAY

OLD MAN

WHO’S A BUM

BUTCH

LUNCH BOX

HANDS IN SOCKS

FIXING THE ROOF

SNOOPY HAT

AQUARIUM

BENT NAILS

PICTURE WINDOW

SIXTEEN INCHES ON CENTER

TALKING ABOUT THE WEATHER

THAT ASBESTOS SEASON

RUB BACK

CLEAN SHAVEN?

STANLEY BUTT MARKER

NO RECORD OF YOUR VOICE

JFK DRIVE

YOUNGER MAN’S CLOTHES

PIGEONS IN VENICE FOUNTAINS

FATHER MET ME IN THE OLD

COUNTRY

PATERSON

YOUR BIRTHDAY

OVERALLS

TURPS

ONE EURO FROM A TWO EURO

Sixteen Inches On Center

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

American Boy – The Poem Factory, Poems Made Here, Poets of Autumn

Back To Christine – The MEWS Humor Issue, Montclair Editors and Writers

Bent Nails – Paterson Literary Review

Hands in Socks – Paterson Literary Review, Editor’s Choice in the 2008 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards

Lunch Box – Rattlesnake Review

Old Man – Raving Dove Online Literary Magazine

Paterson – The Poetry of Place: North Jersey in Poetry. An anthology celebrating the poetry of William Carlos Williams

Rub Back – CHEST, the Journal of the American College of Chest Physicians.

Shoot The Breeze – Rattlesnake Review (Poetry With Fangs)

Sixteen Inches On Center – Rattlesnake Review (Poetry With Fangs)

Snoopy Hat - Paterson Literary Review

Turps – The Idiom

That Asbestos Season – CHEST, the Journal of the American College of Chest Physicians.

Trophies – New Jersey Poetry Society anthology On The Quiet Side

Younger Man’s Clothes – Edison Literary Review

Studs usually consist of 2 x 4 in. (38 x 89 mm) or 2 x 6 in. (38 x 140 mm)
lumber and are commonly spaced at 16 in. (400 mm) on centre.
-- Wikipedia

SIXTEEN INCHES ON CENTER

Copyright © 2010 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved

Cherry Blossom Press, PO BOX 110252, NUTLEY NJ 07110

Cover photo, Venice, Italy.

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Cherry Blossom Press

Military History

Nutley, NJ, Books

Belleville, NJ, Books

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