A dogwood grew over there - v2

The front of our old house so sterile,
siding where clapboards were,
not like I remember it, alive, part of us,
stout bushes rising up to the windows,
verdant grasses, flagstones in the walk,
where there is now cement only,
curved where it was straight...
blue paint where there was white,
remembering scraping and sanding,
To get the painting just right…

The pool she always wanted consumed,
filled the back yard, where we once played,
a maple stood in the margin, the verge,
between the sidewalk and the road,
a dogwood grew over there, to the left,
a treasure of our mother, the blossoms,
tending her hens and chickens, edging,
crushed marble stones around its base,
her one jack-in-the-pulpit hidden,
Under the bushes, around to the right…

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Edited March 29, 2024
A dogwood grew over there – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-dogwood-grew-over-there-v2.html
March 28, 2024
A dogwood grew over there
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-dogwood-grew-over-there.html
Edited March 28, 2024
The dormer of my room – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-dormer-of-my-room-v2.html
March 27, 2024
The dormer of my room
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-dormer-of-my-room.html
57 Squawfield Road,
Westfield, MA
1963 to 1976
30 X 24 cape
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/57-Squawfield-Rd_Westfield_MA_01085_M47891-49185
https://gis.vgsi.com/westfieldma/Parcel.aspx?pid=3274
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Merged March 19, 2024
Builder – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/03/builder-v3.html
Me playing with blocks on our porch, 1964,
Building a tower in the living room, 1965,
Playing with Legos outside, 1966
March 19, 2024
I was an architect, a builder
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/03/i-was-architect-builder.html
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edited November 17, 2018
Builder – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/builder-v2.html
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edited March 19, 2024
Behind the broken barbed wire – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/03/behind-broken-barbed-wire-v2.html
drawing by me
falling out of the tree when the board kicked up
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Edited March 19, 2024
On white butcher block paper – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/03/on-white-butcher-block-paper-v2.html
Cantell's Supermarket
11 Franklin Street
Westfield, MA
Owned by Richard L. Cantell
Matchbook cover - https://www.ebay.com/itm/364698495439
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Edited February 22, 2024
Willing the ball Fair – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/willing-ball-fair-v2.html
Edited February 22, 2024
Learning to Swing – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/learning-to-swing-v2.html
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Edited February 13, 2024
Roads in the dirt – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/roads-in-dirt-v3.html
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Edited February 13, 2024
winged samaras – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/winged-samaras-v3.html
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February 1, 2024
A metal slug
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/a-metal-slug-coin.html
 
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