November 16: Nick of Time

The faithless hound hides underneath the bed,

Thus showing more sense than mistress and master,

For Dashiell Hammett hit it on the head-

Nora and Nick are quick, but Asta’s faster.

My parents, married thirty years and counting,

Diverted by the antics on the screen,

Are laughing, now, as always when surmounting

Their troubles, filling every day between.

As mine and mine join in the merriment

I can’t not be aware we share the room

With two great pairs, each for the other meant,

One caught in spring, and o...