Grandfather, I come in the middle of lifeto your birthplace [...]

 For those who once walked among uswe must speak words [...]

 Old friend, we’ve sat many nights on this wornwooden swing [...]

 Now I know why he frantically peckedthe keys of his [...]

Day of wrath! Day of mourning! When the worlddissolves in [...]

 The breeze brings the scentof a distant wood in the [...]

 It scratches against the itch and burn of the heat,belt [...]

 She was the mother whose onlylook at life before she [...]

 A young nurse’s aide, I bathed them out of pansof [...]

 Arranging his hospital gownto hide a black pubic flash,he doesn’t [...]