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Leaving Town

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Travel / tagged Despair, Home, Separation / June 25, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

With the last house at your back
and the last dog in the last yard
tired of barking

Still standing and still staring
at a line posing as horizon

The warmth and wounds of love
drying in the wind

Knowing that the world
is indeed flat
that you are only one
step from the edge
and that you will
fall off

Sweet Memories

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships, Remembering / tagged Denial, Diabetes / June 22, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

My mother's mother
lost a leg in the sugar wars

We dragged our butts across town to see her
she dragged hers across the hosue to serve us

You would think that each visit
might have served as a caution

But, as young minds
may twist and stay twisted

I took away instead
an infinite ability to ignore the obvious

and a taste for milk and ginger cookies

Grandma Brander

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships, Remembering / tagged Childhood, Games / June 21, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Mother would sometimes stop our play and send us to visit her mother in that little white house

She may have had grand stories to tell, about her childhood in England and Ontario and her brother lost at sea, and our grandfather whom we'd never met

What was he like - were we like him - Would we want to be

It was a leap we never took, and spent afternoons in leaps more comfortable to us all - small colourd marbles over small coloured marbles in the inscrutability of Chinese Checkers

Small Town Grade Seven

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Remembering / tagged Childhood, Death, Heartbreak, Small Town / June 20, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In a town of six or seven hundred
you get a cross section of the country

One classmate's father's suicide
with shotgun splattered walls

One boy my age, drowned
in an upturned truck in a muddy ditch

One with leukaemia, white as the snow

One redhead, Leslie French, as beautiful and mysterious as the language

One blonde, Shirley Long, to long for

She's only interested in grade 9 boys

One bruised heart

Not yet hard enough to be broken

Flowers For My Father

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Adoration, Regret / June 15, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

As awed as I was
by so much of my father

As many questions as I didn't ask

The biggest waiting
for some moment on a cloud

is "Tell me of your awe"

To the Zoo

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships, Travel / tagged Adventure, Connection, Gratitude, Joy / June 13, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I went to the Zoo with you
I went to the Zoo with you

There were lions and tigers and elephants
and cotton candy too

but I went to the Zoo with you
with you, with you, with you

Rainbow Connection

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Magic / June 10, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Rainbows do not
end but begin in pots of gold
and the dancing of little green men

Those that think
eyes are only receivers of light
have not seen the eyes that I have seen

The Two-Headed Calf

Audio Recordings, Cows, Farm, Ranch Life, Relationships / tagged Community, Culture, Diplomacy, Intolerance / May 20, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In our part of Saskatchewan
the settlers were French or other

Our ranch and farm were of the other
and fences more than wire barbed

Culture, religion, language and more
meant my love of one went nowhere

The birth of a two-headed calf
should have come as no surprise
its mother not wishing to take sides

River Rocks

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Relationships / May 5, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Rocks alone
corners harsh as habit

Rocks in relationship
time and torrent tumbled

Soft and smooth to the touch
as river bed as any bed so blessed

Winning the Three-Legged Race

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Remembering / tagged Cooperation, Reward, Sports, Teamwork / April 19, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

On sports day at the little school
they tied two inboard legs together
and set the pair on a hobbling chase
for a colored ribbon at the end of the race

Lessons for life are taught here early

Running alone may seem swift and wise
but winning together is the sweetest prize

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