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Old School

Cattle, Cowboy Poetry, Cows, Family, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Education / March 3, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Uncle Emil, a good man
through and through, knew school

Not from being there
but from watching those who had

Four years of university
and he still can’t milk a cow

I’m Ready For My New Hip Now

Family, Personal Growth, Relationships / tagged Healing, Health / January 9, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I think I have finally forgiven

My old hip for all those years of pain

My mother for her hesitation
to carry me in a time of war

My father for the crushings
between the baler and the shed
and between his will and mine

And have taken also
the first small steps toward gratitude
for how far all three have carried me

Heaven

Family, Nature / tagged Death / December 31, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If you've lived that long by the Miramichi You're probably right about what heaven is like

In loving memory of my son-in-law’s father Dr. Fred Bullock

Why Children Are Christmas

Family, Personal Growth, Relationships / December 25, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The gift
of every you
is a point of view

The gift
of every me
is willingness to see

One For The Aunties

Family, Ranch Life / December 5, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Who midwifed my father into the world in a packing crate shack in 1912
And washed up and went home without mentioning the blessed event to the government (an no one else did either)
Forty years later he applies for a passport and finds that he doesn't exist
Until they swear on on their memory and bring him into the world again

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The Austrian Uncles

Family / December 4, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Already old when I was young
revered as I would hope to be when old

Two brothers married to two sisters
of my father’s father

Great aunts
always as they’ve always been
busily bustling ‘round the house

While the uncles somehow stay
both present and out of the way

Little china cups in work-hard hands
black coffee and home brew
sipping the day away

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How Not to Be a Turkey on Thanksgiving Day

Family, Personal Growth, Relationships / tagged Holiday, Thanksgiving / November 27, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

How do you get to Carnegie Hall
Practice Practice Practice

So sip each morn
and eve on plentitude

And on the day of gratitude
show up less loud and crude

The Innocence of Snow

Family, Nostalgia, Remembering / November 24, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Winter
was winter
and all the world

When the
only light was lamp
and the only power God
and the innocence of snow
lay soft on lad and land

When floating
breath of kin and kine
was pure and white as well
and mankind too as far as we could tell

Antennae daily now
break down that door with news of war

Dreams of My Father

Cattle, Cows, Family / tagged Illness / November 14, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Six weeks you lay in that coma
what dreams you had
I never asked, you never said

The telling of dreams
was not a morning ritual in our home

If in grade two
I had been asked of yours
I’d most likely have said
More cows and a better horse

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No Mas Dias de Los Muertos

Family, Relationships, Remembering / tagged Day of the Dead, Death / November 1, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Canada being that far norte
when my parents brought me home
my father’s mother and mother’s father
were not there to greet

No soft kiss on the brow
no candled altar or silvered frame

But the shape of the space
between the leaves
dark and light with every breeze

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