Sunday, October 02, 2016

Obit 4: loving big sister

You know it is easy
Easy to mock the 
Grieving

So much overwrought

So much sickly-sweet 
Flowers 
 
You even spell
Overwrought 

Wrong

Big sister

Big sister overwrought

That's wrong.

Wrong glue

Wrong


Obit 3: Grace

Grace, all you have is your school history
That's a life, of course, but the details are lost
In the spaces between the paragraphs about
Nothing

You moved a love
We'll leave it at that
You loved a move,
Like we all do

Grace, Grace, Grace

I would have

Obit 2: Many callings

Peacefully surrounded
She passed
Her loving family
At their home

Married of that year

Solemnized

Solemnized

Solemnized

That year

Many callings
And loved serving
Others

Many callings

Solemnized

She retired

Auto Parts

Many friends

Solemnized

Husband

LOVE OF HIS LIFE

Husband

Solemnized


Obit 1: For many years

He worked
He worked at proving
He worked at the proving ground

For many years
His favorite job was being

a

Cowboy
A Cowboy in charge
A Cowboy of the wild horse

Friends
Family
Hunting, camping, and spending

Time

Family
Friends

Survived

A graveside

a

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

We Sleep Until Noon In the Day

It was an age of marvels
Sprawling in Philadelphia
The city of Brotherly love

Hundreds of machines, run
Simultaneously

The American invents
It it genius

Transcend
An inventor needs an enemy

Overcome
His kaleidoscopic mind


Thursday, March 05, 2015

You forgot, didn't you

It's not hard these days,
He said, stopping to wipe his nose
To forget that you didn't remember
That coffee on the pot

Yes, you forgot to remember
That coffee on the pot

You forgot it

No one drank it as it brewed

It brewed some more

And brewed some more

More

What do you think of that sugared
Congealed more

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