Christmas In Kansas 2002

Written December 23, 2002 Christmas party. First one ever. Exchanging gifts. Laughter and tears. Maybe for the ones not celebrated, for all those years. Time changes things. A change welcomed. Long over due… Good for you, Pip Good for you.

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Northern Snowfields

Written February 20, 2002 Snows up North, from where we stay. Go all night… can last all day. More time for children to play. Clean air, wet hair. Catching flakes on your tongue. Snow fields…covering the earth. The trees open… the soul to accept. Christmas in Kansas 2002, was a white one.

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Vanity of A Deer Hunter

Written October 3, 2004 …In the deer stand Credits: Janis Joplin for tune…follow me ya’ll.. Oh ! Lord ! Won’t you send me a fourteen point buck? I got a hunter’s license, and a pick up truck. I’ll get  him and skin him…. Jus’ send a little luck Oh! Lord! Won’t ya send me a […]

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A Word

Give me a word. Any word. I shall make it my own. I will look at it… Pet it… Love it dearly… Then I shall give it a home.

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Momma Sona

1991 She was a Rat Terrier. Lost, alone tied to the end of a rope… to her tagged collar. Being dragged to our house by my son. Called the number. Out of order. So she became… Momma Sona, Mamma Sita,  Chocherona,  Chocherita, Gomez, Perez, Hernandez, Rodriquez, Pena, Schmidt. She understood spanish.  

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Jolt

Written December 22, 2002 Sometimes…. I wonder why it takes a jolt of emotion, for me to write. Happiness…Sorrow…Loss…Gain… So many thoughts and words never hit paper. The best never recorded.  

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A Good Boy

Written February 22, 2003 He’s a good little boy. People never knew. He wanted to do the right thing. In time he’ll pull thru. Takin’ an no givin, makes for a shitty way of livin’ ;; but he’s a good boy.   Broken dreams… not sure how, to go back and get what he needs […]

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