by S.D. Bassett
(“November Remembrance” mobile version)
Today is the birthday,———–trees stand divested
of a verdant life taken,———-stripped bare by storms,
battle scarred and weary,——-progeny thick upon the ground,
and the time intervening——-insulates the cooling earth,
insulates our memories,——–from heat, wind, drought,
of a vital presence.—————a blanket of forgetfulness
of a green life,——————–.of what once was,
of a time so brief …————–in a summer so brief.
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S. D. Bassett currently resides in eastern South Dakota. Having family members in the Army, Marines, and Air Force, and having worked as a registered nurse with veterans, she has profound respect for those who have served, and currently serve, their country in the military. As an ongoing, personal tribute to her older brother David, a Viet Nam veteran who died in 2005 from cancer secondary to agent orange, she writes a poem to him on his birthday each November.
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