This is the eighth installment in this series. You can find the earlier installments by clicking on the Reclamation tag. Thanks for visiting. My dad was born in 1940 somewhere around San Antonio. His first experience of life was the doctor dropping him on his head. From what I’ve heard there was no immediate thought … Continue reading Reclamation part 8
Reclamation Part 4
This is the fourth installment about my multi-section poem responding to Robert Frost's "The Gift Outright." Here's a link to parts 1, 2 and 3. When I was young, the world felt impossibly small to me, but simultaneously too large to fathom. By young I mean the time when this poem takes place, so high … Continue reading Reclamation Part 4
Family and Facebook
I haven't been close to my family outside of my daughter for a long time. Even my sister and I have been distant of late, both overwhelmed by the space between us and the pressures of our lives. (She's had it worse, by far--her husband has had incredible health problems, and the economy caused her … Continue reading Family and Facebook
