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Department Store Blues

Audio Recordings / tagged Humor, Preparation, Shopping / October 27, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I run the long gauntlet
of perfume counter aisles

Reaching men's wear I dare
my first breath
since leaving the street

Take my time picking up
and fondly fondling
warm winter socks

Should I buy two pair or three
two browns and a black
or two blacks and a brown

In no hurry
to begin the return journey
so recently reminded of why
I had been driven there

The odor of the old pair

Ready for Winter

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Cold, Preparation, Seasons, Winter / October 26, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

for Ken Christopher

Horses all haired-up

Nail -heads in the barn
grown rabbit-tufted white

And Johnny's
long johns buttoned tight

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The Fearlessness of Thomson

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature / tagged Art & Artists, Courage, Creativity / October 25, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Being from the prairie
I have a healthy fear of forests
it is fine if they wish to tonsure a lake
but full surround is a whole other matter

I wonder if this was also true
of city pals Tom took to his home
it is hard to look nature full in the eye
while looking always over your shoulder

Whis is not to say that Tom was braver
only the frightened have feed of courage
for Tom there was nothing to stay his hand
and no veil of fear between love and stroke

Go to any gallery, brave deep any painting
and see if you can feel the way that he saw

Image of Poplar Point, Rock, Sun, by Tom Thomson, 1916

Alberta Autumn

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Pause, Snow, Winter / October 23, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Alberta autumn
once again the snow has come
to teach us silence

Okay Now – Mostly

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Acceptance, Death, Gratitude, Grief / October 22, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I think I'm okay now
when with every thought of you

Gratitude for the years
gets there before the tears

Mostly

Dove lupine in Sharon’s San Marcos garden

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Laughing With the Dead

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Remembering / tagged Death, Humor / October 21, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Are people
who were funny here also funny there

When God looks down and sees
what he hath wrought hath wrought

He must be glad that Sharon's there
and Hal and Copper with their laughs

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Quick Exit

Audio Recordings / tagged Accident, Death, Grief, Mourning, Surprise / October 20, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

(for Copper and Sharon)

You do not have to sink
into the earth
an inch of pain at a time

Though the shock be more
for those who grieve
a little envy may enter too

Vehicles

Audio Recordings / tagged Acceptance, Cars, Death, Reincarnation / October 19, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I've had forty cars or so
and who knows how many bodies

Some I miss more than others
'56 T-Bird and '57 Vette for example

You just have to get used to letting go

Beemers

Audio Recordings / October 18, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Sharon meditates
to a fine-tuned hum

Somewhere there is
a car carrying that note

It finds her

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An Ode to O

Audio Recordings / tagged Change, Circles, Death, Grief, Loss / October 17, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There are O's in the Oaties
and O's in the alphabet soup

The East came up
with the concept of zero
and math has never been the same

And you are gone
and nothing will ever be the same

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Anonymous on Rule BritannicaNovember 6, 2026
Amen to that.
Sandi Hebley on Ready for WinterOctober 26, 2026
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NEIL MEILI on Laughing With the DeadOctober 25, 2026
Thanks for the story Sandi, And bet he is and that I would have liked him Neil
Sandi Hebley on Okay Now – MostlyOctober 22, 2026
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Sandi Hebley on Laughing With the DeadOctober 21, 2026
One of my fondest memories is that the last full sentence my dad spoke was to tell a visitor a…

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