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Rabies

 

A boy of eight

Bitten savagely by the family Great Dane

The rabid animal passing the venomous toxin

Then a week of torture and pain

As leather straps bound wrists

And long needles were inserted into the stomach

Only relief

The sleep brought on by fever.

 

We were never allowed

A dog

Until my mother divorced my father

Then Mimi entered our lives

Wrapping her paws about our hearts.

 

Father would never return

Never return to feel the paws

Wrapping about his heart

Or the vicious growls

Of a fear sensing machine.

 

 

My father contracted rabies from his pet Great Dane and shared with me the suffering from the many needles inserted into his abdomen…

 

 

Accident Before Marriage

 

Two young adults

Traveling on an Indiana back farm road

A serious accident

Complete with glass impaling their faces.

 

Sometime after their recovery

Guards were let down and

From a passionate moment

A child was conceived.

 

A prompt and quiet marriage

A relocation to the Golden State

All new friends, opportunities and

A distancing from family.

 

The child carried the pain

Of the mistakes!

 

 

 

Warrior’s Calm

 

“Sometimes the horror of war is too great to share…

It becomes a burden encased carefully in layers of nacre…

The sharpness dulled as the weight masses, waiting.”

Where Red Dolphins Go, Robert Lanphar

 

He dragged on that Camel deeply

Those Turkish fine tobaccos

Called him from horrors of war

 

His caravan moved across

The wide sands

Camel swaying

Solitude deafening

Oasis, oasis, oasis ‘til Timbuktu

 

Then the romantic bazaar…

Backbeat of North African music

Babble of mixed tongues

Building to

Screaming level…

 

He exhales in perfectly formed rings

Cough calmed for now…

Another deep drag

To a crackling cherry red tip.

 

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