For today,
I found out---
a dear friend
is moving away
One, with whom
BE and I have had
many nice visits
over coffee
for four years,
almost
In the cold Winter
and the hot
Summer.. he was wont
to drop by, for
a little while...as he had
a delivery job
around town
I've known many people
in my life, mostly
smart ones...and this
friend from old Clovis
is one of the
best-informed
of all---on any subject
His older brother Noel
was in the CHS '51 class,
but I came to know Wylie
from the CHS '53 class
even better
He wrote on MIL'S PLACE
about the KD Ranch
north of Clovis, on the FRIO
and about his
marvelous mother who raised
nine kids out there
She wrote lines
that really grabbed me:
"I've always loved...
a good storm," she
penned---
You can't beat that!
I even wrote
a couple of pieces
about him for MIL"S:
"WYLIE CAME BY TODAY!"
we posted.
It's just the way
life is
He and his wife are
moving away
Another hard thing
to accept,
on the journey...
Maybe it was
last Christmas
that he brought us a
Star of Bethlehem
gift on a ribbon...
made by his wife,
a talented artisan
It hangs around the
neck of my favorite
"MUSING FROG---JEREMIAH"
statue---there by my
"writing window...,"
year-round now
Reckon I won't ever
look over at old
Jeremiah and see THAT STAR
that I won't feel a pang
of regret and loss,
and wonder how my
OLD FRIEND...Wylie is
getting along.
*****************
BY SAD MIL,
JULY 7. 2016
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