Monday, July 22, 2013

I remember the rain – v3


I was drinking, that much certain,
in the dorm, maybe at a bar
wearing a grey Levis corduroy jacket
how many I don’t remember
too many I’m sure

getting there somehow
standing on the stone jetty
the pitch blackness
the tide coming in
crashing on my footsteps
                                                                                         
I remember the rain
splashing on my face
the taste of salt water
only then the silence
waking in my bed 

I don’t know how I lived
how I got off that jetty
the tide coming in
only that is was slippery
in the middle of the storm


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Edited July 22, 2013
“I remember the rain – v3”
Edited July 22, 2013
“I remember the rain – v2”
July 22, 2013
“I remember the rain”
Edited July 2, 2013
“Love them where you love them – v2”
July 1, 2013
“Love them where you love them”
presentation by Chester (Chet) Birmingham
on addiction and recovery at
Jeremiah’s Corner,
led by Ellen Dickinson
Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church
Patten, ME
July 1, 2013

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