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Snowbirds in Flight

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Aging, Winter / February 18, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Icicles are seldom but never not curved
given the shape of eavestroughs and all
and deaths not uncommon when they fall
Many a Canadian grown up with that threat
and each year older holding harder to living
will run from that moon as fast as they can
and not until next April will you see them again

A Picture Poem

Audio Recordings, Nature, Travel / tagged Beauty, photography, Winter / January 12, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Mid afternoon, mid December
American Airlines from Dallas
drops into Calgary with the snow

Soft flakes fall as we rent the car
stop as we drive north into
an Ansel Adams world

Sky pillowed gray on gray
Houses and barns and bales
covered in white powder

Trees all a-bloom with hoary frost
both sides of the coal black road

For the next hour
any picture we take with color film
would still come out black and white

Until we top the overpass and see from a
horizon that was not a horizon
the rising of a Mandarin Orange moon

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Breakfast at the Chateau Lake Louise

Audio Recordings, Travel / January 11, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Oregon in Winter

Audio Recordings, Flight, Nature, Travel / January 10, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The big plan slows, mists rise to meet it
droplets begin to play along the windows
My body, mostly water
falling through clouds, mostly water

I have been traveling some

The water in me comes from the limestone caverns of Austin
the rivers of Upstate New York, and
million year old glaciers in the Rockies of Alberta

The clouds have been around the world
rising and falling as river, air and sea

Quiet now, as I am
I can feel them meeting again
hear them, telling stories

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The Silence of Sleighs

Audio Recordings, Environment, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering, Travel / January 8, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

My earliest memories do not have a sound track

The steppes of Canada are the steppes of Russia
Zhivago watching Lara leave ... without her song

The horse’s hooves
compressing snow to greater silence
the runners sinking softly into silence
skimming surface of silence
stretching out the notes of silence

The bells on the horse . . . . . . were there bells

Watched Dr. Zhivago last night with family

The Day After Christmas

Audio Recordings, Travel / December 26, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The tree is still up
manger strewn straw and paper
wise me saddled gone

Christmas Cards

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering, Travel / December 24, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Back when mail was mail
and jam came in a pail
(with strawberries big as your thumb)
the thing I most remember
are the envelopes of December

It didn't surprise us
that Santa came by sleigh
anybody to get to our ranch
would have had to come by sleigh

so they came by card instead
and helped us light each clip-on candle
around the popcorned tree

After the Christmas Party

Audio Recordings, Ranch Life, Travel / tagged Blizzard, Prairie Life, Survival / December 23, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Anitfreeze or whisky
too much or too little you're in trouble

This is the scene that you would see
if the swirling snow would let you

A young man in an old Ford truck
heading West at three miles an hour

Driver's window open arm extended full length
Mittened hand holding twelve volt spotlight
beam groping the ridge along the graveled lane

Two feet from death on one side
ten on the other, and happy

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Down Under

Audio Recordings, Flight, Travel / tagged Faith, Reincarnation, Religion / December 22, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Flying toward the sunset
crossing the International date line
you do not exist on this earth for a day

You may be in heaven or hell
depending on who you are meeting there
and it may seem or be that you're there forever

Fortunately there are alternatives
plenty of religions believe in return tickets
and you may get to fly again into another sunrise

Flying the Concorde

Audio Recordings, Pilots, Travel / December 21, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I am not immune to the desire
to wind the stem of old time back
and with about as much success as most

Except when the Concorde flew the sky
and I, pilot to pilot in the cockpit stood
and watched the earth reverse for me
on a flight from London to DC

What have I done you ask
with the slice of time I stole

Saved it in a bank of cloud
above the ocean eight miles up
where I can go if ever I wish
to write a check for a smile or a kiss

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