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Phillip Coffey - Earthen Crust

EARTHEN CRUST, a Memorial Day remembrance by Phillip Coffey

My Father, at rest now peacefully entombed on a pleasant Keltnertown grassy knob overlooking
Land explored by 'many a kin' - Coomer, Coffey, Rogers and Keltner in the last two hundred years or so.
They settled on the forested hills - rocks just beneath the thinly layered liter, some turned upward still.
No more pain of shots ringing out in Dad's memory of youthful march against the Nazi-humbled Huns.

No time today to visit the sacred scene of family and some close friends interred beneath the shining sun.
My thoughts drift back frequently to all those fine people - many who helped shape me into whatever I be.
Prayerfully joining the mourning dove coos in the requiem of souls briefly planted in the dust.
Someday soon I shall join them with other trusted family members buried in the upper earthen crust.




This story was posted on 2022-06-04 02:19:59
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