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Phillip Coffey: Early Life Muse

By Phillip Wood Coffey

Picking out the gravel from my dilapidated Brogan shoes
From the spinning of my tall tales with my narrow-minded Views,
Checking out the tree covered, hilly landscape of the clay-silt soil mix,
south of Kelter Ridge from my home rear window.

Deciduous trees bending their tops to the sun, around we swirl.
Thoughts soften my temperament of my Grandfather Cassius Curl.
Crippled was my "Pa" from a logging accident - wiser I became as I sat listening
to his heartfelt stories with nobody else about
From his poverty-stricken maze of raising eleven children with my Ma.
Slowly driving to his offspring homes nearby with the love of his life, Ina River.

Just a little tribute with much love to my early life muse until I was eighteen.




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