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A Funny Story

Audio Recordings, Family, Remembering / tagged Childhood, Humor / October 5, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In the dream I say to brother Wally

You’re going to have to tell the story
or the milk I drank way back then
is going to come out my nose again

Old Barn Leaning

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life, Remembering / September 28, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Still standing by the grace
of planks to the east
wind to the west

and a world in every
dust mote memory

Hugh Carr

Audio Recordings, Remembering / tagged Baseball, Notre Dame, Teacher / September 24, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Hugh Carr had a curve
thrown with an arm half a foot longer than mine
an arm made of rubber mixed with muscle and eyes

That curve would come at you
about three feet high and outside
and as slow as a grade nine getting out of bed

About the time you put your bat down
and got ready to walk to first
it would snap off and break
across the plate

When Hugh Carr taught school
and the second last boy in the very last row in the corner
turned to talk to the very last boy in the very last row in the corner
that long rubber arm would reach back
pick up a chalk brush from the board
and in one graceful flowing motion
bounce it off the head of the boy
turning around in the back

Hugh Carr had a curve - but this was a fastball

All the Days

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Remembering, Travel / tagged Grief / September 17, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The sparkling that heavens the earth - Galway Kinnell

In all our travels together
magic was afoot a -yard a-mile

I still have your laughter on the tape
world and heaven have your smile

The Berries

Audio Recordings, Family, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / September 5, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Grandfather’s Pipe

Audio Recordings, Family, Nostalgia, Relationships, Remembering / August 9, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Long after he had died
I used to smoke my grandfather's pipe

Not really one of his old pipes
but a knobby meerschaum that I had bought
probably because it reminded me of him
the sweetness of his tobacco and his being
At least it reminds me of them now
Or was it him smoking it and me

To The Zoo

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships, Remembering / August 7, 2022 / 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 your
with you, with you, with you

Mother’s Poem

Audio Recordings, Family, Farm, Ranch Life, Relationships, Remembering / July 23, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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The Austrian Uncles

Audio Recordings, Family, Ranch Life, Remembering / July 15, 2022 / 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

Grandma Brander

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships, Remembering / tagged Childhood, Games / July 12, 2022 / 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 coloured marbles over small coloured marbles in the inscrutability of Chinese Checkers

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