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Mittens

Audio Recordings, Ranch Life / tagged Community, Leaving Home, War / November 9, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Fingers in mittens
are family keeping
each other warm

The cold indifference of gloves
much like the city fold that wore them

Pilots in the war had
mittens with a trigger finger
to do what needed to be done

Somewhere we had got a pair
a hero sometimes has to leave home

Out of the Nest

Audio Recordings / tagged Children, Leaving Home / August 15, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

(for Carolyn going away to college)

You have the soul of a bird
it’s so joyful, light and fair
and now it’s flying to a world
that the frightened people share

And I pray you safe
when they see you there
drawing water from mirages
for the flowers
round your castles in the air

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