Dad, were you awake, aware,
when ice grabbed and flung you
when Winter pulling you into its frozen
grip
that night in the mists, the sands,
that instant of fleeting time
Did you hear Mom cry out, her moan
when strangers told her
you were gone, that you were no more
when mile marker 19
pointed to where our grief was born
================
edited
December 28, 2019
Did
You Hear Her Cry, Her Moan – v2
edited/new
name December 28, 2019
Did
You Hear Her Cry, Her Moan
edited
January 22, 2016
Did
You Hear Her Cry – v3
(merging
original and version 2)
edited
January 21, 2016
Crushed
– v2
posted
March 6, 2004
written
1/9/04 – 14:35-14:40
Crushed
–
about cleaning out my father’s car the day after his fatal accident. The
weather was very cold and the passenger door was where the gearshift would be.
The license plate of the car that ran into his was there too. The glasses he
wore were in the right rearmost spot and his watch was in the left rearmost
part of the car. The driver seat was broken backward from the force of the
accident and his blood was on the backseat where he landed.
&
edited
January 11, 2016
Black
Ice – v4
(editing
version 3)
edited
September 1, 2012
Black
Ice – v3
Edited
August 31, 2012
“Black
Ice – v2”
December
12, 2007
“Black
Ice”
------
edited
December 29, 2015
Demons
– v2
edited
December 29, 2015
Did
You Hear Her Cry – v2
edited
December 29, 2015
The
Crash – v2
posted
February 14, 2004
(the
13th anniversary of my father’s fatal accident)
written
June 18, 2001 10:54pm
The
Crash
about my father's death
February 14, 1991
and
my car accident
the
day I applied to law school
edited
December 18, 2015
The
Submariner – v2
&
edited
December 17, 2015
Meticulous
– v2
&
edited
December 18, 2015
Adam
Asked – v2
==========
edited
October 22, 2015
Did
you brace for impact – v2
edicted
October 22, 2015
Mile
Marker 19 – v8
(editing
original)
edited
October 5, 2015
Like
the Venus Fly Trap – v9
(editing
version 5)
&
edited
October 3, 2015
Why
on this day – v3
(editing
original)
edited
October 19, 2014
Why
on this day – v2
July
1, 2014
Why
on this day
“My
Prayers Weekend!”
“Next
Day Stretch”
draft
a note to God
about
a day when you struggled
with
a big question
for
June 29, 2014
read
June 30, 2014
&
edited
June 27, 2014
A
vivid memory – v2
June
27, 2014
A
vivid memory
Matthew
28:20 (NRSV)
Romans
8:31-39
Upper
Room Daily Devotional
“In
Dark Times”
by
Don Greeley
about
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
for
June 26, 2014
read
June 27, 2014
Upper
Room Daily Devotional
for
March and April 2014
&
edited
August 15, 2015
Here
it comes – v3
(editing
version 2)
edited
January 12, 2014
Here
it comes – v2
January
12, 2014
Here
it comes
January
12, 2014
I
am not ready
(conversation
by Dean McKenney about his
bad
car accident 40 years ago)
January
12, 2014
an
accounting to God
January
12, 2014
Honor
their walk
Romans
14:10-12
Romans
14:1-12
Romans
14
Men’s
Bible Study
led
by Steve Curtis
Stetson
Memorial United Methodist Church
Patten,
ME
January
12, 2014
&
edited
August 4, 2015
Like
the Venus Fly Trap – v8
(editing
version 5)
edited May 9, 2015
Ten Years – v2
April 23, 2004
Ten Years
see also
-------
edited January 11, 2014
Mile Marker 19 – v7
(editing version 6)
Edited November 9, 2013
Mile Marker 19 – v6
(editing version 3)
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edited
March 21, 2015
Like
the Venus Fly Trap – v7
(editing
version 5)
edited
December 3, 2014
Like
the Venus Fly Trap – v6
(editing
version 3)
Edited
November 9, 2013
“Like
the Venus Fly Trap – v5”
Edited October 24, 2013
“Like the Venus Fly Trap – v4”
Edited October 11, 2013
“Like the Venus Fly Trap – v3”
Edited December 26, 2012
“Like the Venus Fly Trap – v2”
December 20, 2012
“Like the Venus Fly Trap”
edited
February 11, 2014
“hiding
in the ice – v9”
edited
January 4, 2014
“hiding
in the ice – v8”
(editing
version 5)
Edited
September 28, 2013
“hiding
in the ice – v7”
(editing version 3)
Edited
September 28, 2013
“hiding
in the ice – v6”
(editing
version 2)
Edited
September 25, 2013
“hiding
in the ice – v5”
Edited
August 2, 2013
“hiding
in the ice – v4”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“hiding
in the ice – v3”
Edited
December 21, 2012
“hiding
in the ice – v2”
December
21, 2012
“hiding
in the ice”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“Animated
/ Evil – v2”
December
20, 2012
“Animated
/ Evil”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“A
latent danger – v3”
December
20, 2012
“A
latent danger – v2”
“A
latent danger”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“Smiling
in the freezing – v2”
December
20, 2012
“Smiling
in the freezing”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“A
frozen trap – v2
December
20, 2012
“A
frozen trap”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“was
the road innocent – v2”
December
21, 2012
“was
the road innocent”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“Did
the ice know – v2”
December
20, 2012
“Did
the ice know”
series
of new poems
also
about my father’s death,
after
reviewing poem by Jacob Montgomery,
“Icy
Lanes”,
(see
more of his poems at:
and
exchanging emails with him about that poem
and
my father’s death
2/14/1991
&
Edited
August 22, 2013
“eyes
not shut – v2”
August
22, 2013
“eyes
not shut”
a
poem in conjured after reading poem
“TATTOOS AND ATTITUDE”
by Chip Bergeron
&
Edited September 20, 2012
new poem, “Did you brace for impact”
&
Edited September 20, 2012
“Mile Marker 19 – v5”
&
Edited September 12, 2012
“Mile Marker 19 – v4”
editing version 2 below
&
Edited September 12, 2012
“Mile Marker 19 – v3”
editing the original again
inspired by reading it at Poets’ Corner
monthly poetry reading,
at the Suncook Senior Center
September 10, 2012
&
edited June 6, 2012 (adding an additional last stanza)
“Mile Marker 19 – v2”
&
October
2, 2011
Did
You Hear Her Cry
after
rereading earlier poem,
“Mile
Marker 19”
&
Edited
April 23, 2013
“No
Life in Your Eyes – v2”
February
11, 2011
“No
Life in Your Eyes”
remembering
the 20th anniversary
of
my father’s death, February 14, 1991
written
at the House of Purpose coffeehouse
Hillsboro,
NH
February
11, 2011
&
new
poem February 11, 2014
Where
you are scattered
posted
March 22, 2004
written
2/26/2001
Adam
Asked
posted
March 18, 2004
written
March 6, 2001
Meticulous
posted
March 17, 2004
written
3/2/2001 and 3/5/2001
The
Submariner
posted
February 18, 2004
edited
April 25, 2015
Home
Again – v2
edited
April 23, 2015
Your
final resting place – v2
edited
April 25, 2015
Ashes
– v2
March
2, 2001
“Ashes”
posted
February 18, 2004
March
2, 2001
“Home
Again”
&
posted
March 10, 2004
written
April 3, 2001 8:47am
Demons
&
posted February 8, 2004
original version written 5/20/2000
“Mile Marker 19”
posted to my blog on February 8, 2004,
as the 15th poem
put on the site -
about my father’s fatal car accident
near Mile Marker 19
on the Spaulding Turnpike
Rochester, NH
February 14, 1991 at 7:02pm
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