Shadow People – When the Lineage Merges and Generations Fade
for a downstream lineage to manifest requires an injection – a partner, a husband, a wife to be inserted into this stream that it might flow onward
sons
A Mother’s Love, a Son’s Regrets – Fourth of the Lineage Poems
But she was also the quieter, smaller one of the two. I always had the sense that she chose to hold herself close, always to defer.
Welcomed by the Land – A Father Returns Home
redwing blackbirds
flash like fire in the sun, the Olds
sailing and sailing over waves of blacktop
On the Way to Heaven, 2nd Lineage Poem: Over Ohio
my mother called on Friday
to let me know his time was near
that I needed to come now.
