Four to eight hours, Just jibber jabbering, Adopted sistet and me, Last night while Ruth colored, Heat and sweating caught me unawares, I fell aslerp three.times, She.had.called.me.at.seven, Off to sleep, she was, A lawyet had called, She stayed.talking to me Just.a Val, Just a poet, She.says I rold you about.my.laesuit didn’t U, I said no,Continue reading “Fell asleep”
Category Archives: Adopted family
Ruth and Susan,
Sisters mine, Better than friends,7 Both with cancer, Talk all night to Ruth, Priceless timeRuth seventy-one she calls me kid, Susan calls me sister, Penny youngest adopted sister, Ruth I talk to when I need thought, known less then two years, Feel I have had her in my life for years, Susan a lover ofContinue reading “Ruth and Susan,”
I hate age
Drove to Decorah today, Legs were down to long, Their swollen, Arthritis from holding steering wheel hurts in left hand, I go nowhere near the damn period but every sentence has at least one bird turd, Cats want feeding, I want the damn bad burning blood out of my[.]left leg, I yell eat Flies, NeedContinue reading “I hate age”
A Val
It was asked.of.me the other day, Do you know how to put on a doorknob, I said Yes! I wanted to say your day had sons, My dad had a Val, At l nine dad understood how.l convient it was to have a Val, His world expanded, Mom alwats said Dad was like Tom Sawyer,Continue reading “A Val”
TBI
For years nothing but feeling the wall ramming, This year crippling pain from the back lower left of my brain, Waukon,Iowa firemen rammed my head into the wall extracting me from our smoke gilled.home, I was dead, Took aboard a hellicopter, I had burnt lungs, They put nine metal staples in my .neck, I hadContinue reading “TBI”
Melody Carlson
One of my favorite writers, Always her books are like ingridients for a better day, Melody always puts a pinch of her god in her stories, Wonderful writer full of wonder, Her Christmas books fill me with warmth, Not like Iowa’s summer heat, Which fills my skin with salt, I had not heard until tonight,Continue reading “Melody Carlson”
Penny
Not nichle, Not silver, Not a coin, A rare find, A sister, An Empath, In a parking lot She recorded the date, The times we have shared, Precious and few, Like a song from my youth, I look for those times, I cherrish those memories, We were nit.meant to kast life times, She’s a sisterContinue reading “Penny”
Waiting
Waiting for Penny, National past time, In the Army hurry up and wait, Don’t make others wait, Be consciderate, Have a care, Hot as hell todayin northern Iowa, No air conditioning, Pennys, in her crappy ass below standards motel, But.air.conditioning works, Penny just texted not comming,
Wasabi peas,
Ruth in Arazonia turned.me on to me on to them, Crunchie, Hot, Feel like I can breathe Smell things with my nose now., Wasabi peas,
Val Whitewolf 