Memory Columbus Day Poems

OCTOBER

One is for Columbus, Two my Lady
This tropical place rattles memory --
Third cannot be memory of Autumn
The tropics dance to another rhythm

Yet where I am...

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Many are the worries of the heart 
But love calms it down
There comes a time when the heart bleeds
It worries greater than the ocean tides

A...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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The Photo 


 When I was nine, the war had been over
for about two, years, but the German army had left
behind uniforms, so we dressed...

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After the storm, my brother
(all gangly knees and elbows)
bore the brunt of its ferocious aftermath.

Every day after school
I watched his wiry biceps bulge a little
as...

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