Monthly Archives: May 2007

‘We Remember’ Captain William J. Browne; Stacey Browne; Viola Keeler; Lt. Cal French; Pfc. Hal Norton Jr.; Bill Williams; Hoppie; Marcia Condo; A. Pacitto; Peter Pacitto I; Viola Keeler Olin; ; T.J. Russell; Sam & Petrina McCune; Elsie Enright; Thomas … Continue reading →

Ruby and her husband, Hercules Valentine Anderson, were my grandparents. Memorial Day always brings them to mind.  The wakes of being they left in life  we living keep alive in the name of justice, in the name of love and … Continue reading →

                Swept away           That day,           In the kitchen against the wall           On a wave of you.           A first-time raft in a hurricane           Two so different and the same           For hours, for days—-           … Continue reading →

                                                 “Glory, Glory, Glory” is what Katherine wrote on the days of her monthly calendar—except for the last three. A neighbor found her two weeks later, dead on the kitchen floor. Except for rigueur, the old girl seemed perfectly preserved, … Continue reading →

It is now, thankfully, hard to imagine that less than a month ago we were undergoing last-of-winter snowfalls. I guess that with the birth of spring- as well as the birth of anything else- one tends to release the hardships … Continue reading →

That road to where Is no way home, As you roam Through the open of a broken gate And wait. A pause of flicker light Dances shadows in flight Across the space Of the old gray floor Where once, There … Continue reading →

  Come and gone And it’s done, Done. I heard your call To rise and fall. What was I ya’ll? That surmise in your eyes A hard surprise At  sight. You would not see The light Within my day Within my night. … Continue reading →