By Jesse Hilson
On Saturday morning, before it gets too hot on these summer days, the landscaping needs some tender loving care. It’s been raining so much and the grass is growing up: out of control! The neighborhood kid drives the ground-shaver while mom operates the push-roller. She’s listening to Celine Dion on her Walkman.
Jesse Hilson is a writer and artist living in the Catskills in New York State. His work has appeared in Hobart, X-R-A-Y, Apocalypse Confidential, Scaffold, Farewell Transmission, Excuse Me Mag, Expat, Misery Tourism, and other venues. He has written two novels, Blood Trip and The Tattletales; one story collection, The Calendar Factory; and a poetry collection, Handcuffing the Venus De Milo. He can be reached on Instagram at @platelet60 and he runs a Substack newsletter called Chlorophyll & Hemoglobin.