Nice ventriloquism, Max.
Doug
Quoting "Max Richards" <[log in to unmask]>:
> Ashes
>
> She told her friends he chose cremation,
> and no funeral. And the ashes?
>
> ‘I drove with them through the hills,
> along the river to the bay.
>
> Couldn’t open the container!
> Back to the hardware store
>
> with my strange request. Kind man –
> said he’d dine out on the story.
>
> Along the river the tide was running
> full and fast. Thinking how the river flow
>
> meets just there the great Southern
> Ocean, I left some ashes.
>
> Then to the beach – miles of sand
> and not a soul, not a footprint.
>
> The waves truly were great white horses.
> Skimming them, one magnificent shearwater.
>
> This place we loved, the flight of these birds.
> I left the ashes on the tide, feeling lightened.
>
> Back at the car I watched the sunset forming.
> A juvenile magpie joined me. Now to arrange a wake.'
>
> Wednesday 21 October 2009
>
> Max Richards
>
> Victoria, Australia
>
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Douglas Barbour
11655 - 72 Avenue NW
Edmonton Alberta T6G 0B9
That’s not a cross look it’s a sign of life
Frank O’Hara
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