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Old Train Math

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Remembering, Travel / tagged memories, Saskatchewan / May 30, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If a train leaves Moose Jaw
heading west at the speed of first memory

Engine, cars, and caboose
zebra-ing by behind a snowfence
smoke billowing back over its shoulder

And another leaves, traveling east
from my writing of it now

When will they meet
at the small town of Courval
and your reading of this page

Pere Loved the Greeks

Audio Recordings, Remembering / tagged Adversity, Athol Murray College of Notre Dame, Education, Hunger, Philosophy / May 22, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

All day
we sit with the great men of Athens
learn about the birth of reason
and how reason learned to fly

At night return
to the cold, hungry, shacks of our Sparta
each with a wolf gnawing under his cloak
too proud to cry out if we die

Perspective

Audio Recordings, Remembering, Travel / tagged Holocaust, Homeland, Israel, Survival / April 17, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In Israel this year
the number of Jews will reach six million

There are other Jews in other lands
but it is only here that you can stand

Put out your hands
palms up and softly cupped

Weigh each as equal
weigh each and say

“This many”

A poem written for Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2012

Reincarnation by Loon

Audio Recordings, Nature, Remembering / tagged Birds / April 15, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Not there's a sound
you could take anywhere
and remember
when you returned

Light Shining on Copper

Audio Recordings, Remembering / tagged Copper Love, Fate, Friendship, Grief, Loss / March 30, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I can mostly buy
the whole spiritual thing
that she is neither dead nor gone

or at a perfect time
and to a perfect place

But there is
this hole in a hug
where she used to fit

Copper Left Her Laugh

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Remembering / tagged Death, Joy, Memory / March 29, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It is on
her answering machine
It is in
the hearts
of a thousand friends
as she laughs at death
or with it

Remember the Alamo

Audio Recordings, Remembering / tagged Copper Love, Death, Grief / March 28, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Two Pictures of Hawaii

Audio Recordings, Remembering, Travel / tagged Aging / March 21, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

On the east side of Oahu
when the sun comes up just right
you can see the mountains of Molokai and Maui

In picture number one
I am standing in the foreground
trim and twenties, trying to look like I belong

In picture number two
I am the camera, and the picture ages with me

Sheets to the Wind

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Laundry / March 6, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Reminded by Marymae the other day

of Monday's wash in Tuesday's wind
and bending sheets to bring them in

It was just enough starch
and thirty degrees below in March

About how fingers got cold as hell
but I think it was really about the smell

Yes that was the part she wanted to tell
it was really the freshness of that smell

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The Sunday-Go-Meeting Suit

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / March 5, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It only took but one
and it usually came in brown
for marrying in and burying in
and going off to town

The pants they came in twos
to double the life and use
each shining like an aura
from those well worn wooden pews

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