were on the telephone
How old would she have been?caught
herself How old will she be?
Fortyseven
Doesn’t seem possible.
None of it does
Asif a bad dream
A bad
dream after so long an amazing beautiful dream
Then the wheels came off
We didnt recognise they had
That’s not for us to know, to recognise.
Imagine if we did.
I imagine that would be unfortunate.
My Maw did
Did?
Recognised?
I cant tell youI think I
think more than a hafdozen times Id come home late Two AM or headed out to do my
paper route shed be up sipping
a cup of tea at the kitchen table in her robe her hair up Whas up Maw
Someone in the
family’s died. I’m waiting for the telephone call.
Then either waking in the morning to
deliver papers or returning from it Id walk into the house and the family woud
be crying
The call came
I didnt say anything to her
She didnt say anything to me
One Christmas after I moved out moved
away I bought her tarot cards
Opening it she threw the deck at meGet them the hell out of my
house.
They offended her?
Yathink
Have you ever been to
Sedona Arizona
No.
Do you know wha a stupa is Tibetan prayer
flags are
The flags, yes.
The stupa a Buddhist temple Ive been twice
Aniela an Collin several more than
me
An together
I do not pray but I very much like the
prayer the words the stupa suggest if one hasnt a prayer
“By this effort, may all sentient beings
be free of suffering.
“May their minds be filled with the
nectar of virtue.
“In this way, may all causes resulting
in suffering be extinguished,
“and only the light of compassion shine
throughout all realms.”
he
began to weep
croaked Comforting
Comforting to know tha Collin will be
our loving emissary tomorow
1734, reggaefriday,
24 4. 26
1117, Saturday – Aniela’s birthday, 25 4.
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