Just a bump. I decided to use "Brown Dirt Boy" from this collection as the opening to my memoir collection that I'm in the process of finalizing.
Brown Dirt Boy
We grew from the land like willows from water
on the banks of the Red River flow.
Swimming the summers away in the lake,
hiding from winter’s cold.
This is the land where the mistletoe grows,
no cellophane mass-market bags.
You pick it fresh, white berries and all
right there from the trees on the land.
When I was ten they put up a tower;
TV for both sides of the lake.
I remember watching with rapt-faced awe
The Day the Earth Stood Still.
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