THE GOOD COMPANIONS, A POEM CONSIDERED IN THE RICHMOND

 DISTRICT OF NORTHWEST SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA 

— FROM AGE 21 TO where I live now and this month 86–beginning

 IN THE NORTH TEXAS GRASSLANDS A SWEET MOMENT and then

Jerry McCarty went away with his brother back to West Texas from

Denton about 30 miles north of Dallas in the Grasslands in the off-

semesters that summer at North Texas State University, “college:

then (in Shakespeare & Dr Leuke’s  phonetics survey) where I’d been

living and working in North Station near the college-a classified

firefighter for the City and a student and when I then fell a victim

into a vacuum in my mind where I learned again to build myself

for the first time in a maturing process a spiritual advisor might

have suggest then some now more a bit as I sit by the bedside     

of my spouse of 52 years (“husband” is a proprietary term we

may still be shying away from). It is raining all sorts of weather 

© Copyright    Edward Mycue    March 13, 2023