Dennis O'Hare
speaker
246 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 6 Aug
Dennis O'Hare’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They do come, those trusted friends and friends of friends, each making a live green deposit.
At first, a tiny row of sod squares begin to inch along toward left center field.
The next night, even more people arrive.
The following night, more again.
And the night after that is positively a crowd.
Those who come once always seem to return accompanied by
Friends, occasionally a son or younger brother, but mostly men my age or older, for we are the ones who remember the grass.
Night after night.
The pilgrimage continues.
The first night, I stand inside the green deep door listening.
I hear a vehicle stop, hear a car door close with a snug thud.
I open the door when the soft sound of sold shoes on gravel tells me it's time.
The door swings silent as a snake.
We nod curt greetings to each other, two men past me, each carrying a grasshopper-legged sprinkler.
Later, each sprinkler will sizzle like frying onions as it wheels a silver sparkler in the moonlight.
During the nights that follow, I stand, sentinel-like, on the top of the grandstand, watching as my cohorts arrive.
Old men walking across a parking lot in a row, in the dark, carrying coiled hoses, looking like the many wheels of a locomotive.
Old men who have slipped away from their homes, skulked down their sturdy sidewalks, breathing the cool, grassy after-midnight air.
They have left behind their sleeping, gray-haired women,
their immaculate bungalows, their manicured lawns.
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