![Dear Bill
Reading memoirs of your daughter my mother
Stories of how you broke a boxcar of broncs
and sent them on trained and tame
How at every school event
you would be the emcee
Would’ve loved being
there with you
and you living long enough
to be here with me
Hanging on the rail
while I ducked hooves
in the horse corral
and in the audience
of a poetry reading
joining in with the applause](https://i0.wp.com/www.neilmeili.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/To-a-Grandfather-Not-Met-1.jpg?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1)
Author’s grandfather with Baby (Uncle Bruce) on Silver. Author’s mother standing alongside – circa 1926
Author’s grandfather with Baby (Uncle Bruce) on Silver. Author’s mother standing alongside – circa 1926
Poem arising from a Maya Angelou reading in Calgary, Alberta, with the author and his daughter Roberta in the front rows.
Kinky, as he would say, stepped on a rainbow yesterday.
Many bios from the New York Times, to Rolling Stone to the Austin American Statesman
click names for links.