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I Never Saw My Mother on Horseback

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cows, Family, Farm, Ranch Life, Remembering / November 5, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I understand that
she used to ride to school
but she was little and it was a farm
and somehow that didn't seem to count

When she was about 75 she told me about going with Dad to the far end of the ranch on a beautiful day a long time ago to help round up some strays

She said that she liked it a lot
and couldn't remember why she didn't do it more

Questions For the Next Séance

Audio Recordings, Family, Remembering / tagged Childhood, Communication, Death / November 4, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Dearest Mother;

Sorry to disturb you
in your well deserved bliss,
but here’s a short list
of things that I forgot to ask

And if it isn’t too much trouble
I’d like the answers as detailed as possible

It will be understandable
if you can’t conjure up a voice,
but one rap for yes, and two for no,
on a floating table won’t quite do

However, if you can look up Samuel Morse,
(who may well be bored and available),
he can give you a quick-study course
and I will dust off my old Boy Scout manual
I believe “talk to me” In Morse still becomes:

– •– •–•• –•– – – – – – – •

So, now that we’ve got the hang of it;

– What was the best day of your life
– What was your worst

– Your greatest triumph
– Your greatest disappointment

– What you are happiest that you did
– Saddest that you didn’t

Why exactly did my uncle shoot my dog
Whatever happened to my baseball card collection, with the rookie Mickey Mantle

and what is heaven like

The Question

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cows, Family, Farm, Ranch Life, Relationships, Remembering / November 3, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There's Dad sitting
by the after branding fire
with some after branding beers

And we get to talking
heart to heart
of trails together and apart

And of the things we saw
which ones brought us awe

Lucy In the Earth With Diamonds

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Remembering / October 28, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There were times with you
when the very marrow
of my bones sang too

Dug up
three million years from now
they will have instruments
to listen to the music

Laughing With the Dead

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Remembering / tagged Heaven, Joy, Laughter / October 23, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In loving memory of Sharon Stuart, Hal Stone and Copper Love

Storm Windows on the Prairie

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Autumn, Fall / October 7, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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

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