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Welcome to my blog. Here I discuss my life experiences and the fascinating people I meet along the way. I also document my adventures in writing, reading, and cooking. Hope you have a nice stay!

Hold Fast

Hold Fast

through cordite cigar smoke 
                      and stale beer

               he said hold fast grizzled 
  cheeked gravel voice 
                                   echoing an 
                           avalanche in my mind cascading 

               down to enrapture my heart 
     tales told of violence hurriedly 
                                         assembled and disposed how Jim 
                 Crow made him choose fight over 

flight sitting at the kitchen 
                    table he gestured and pronounced to 
               mixed silence but never backed 

                              down now in dreams his 

            lecturing finger instructs me 
                              his eyes betray stern 
          affection through coon hound horn 

                                     rimmed glasses and 
                dentures 

                                now he lays still 
           and passive succumbed 
                                    to nature in a cold grey 

      granite tomb yet for 
                      me he holds fast

Holy Tree

Holy Tree

Ode To the Cows of Coalinga

Ode To the Cows of Coalinga