[lit-ideas] Re: Handle of Osage Orange
- From: Ursula Stange <ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 13:48:28 -0500
Beautifully evocative, Lawrence. Hope you are well....
> On Nov 3, 2014, at 8:43 AM, Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Handle of Osage Orange
>
> Leaving the Corps at twenty
> I could have gone back
> Or into college or law
> Enforcement. What did
> I know but the Corps’ training?
> Looking back I would
> Not have been the same.
>
> Later on I was willing enough
> To fight but not as before –
> Retired at thirty-five
> Or forty but less preparation
> For introspection and worry
> Better liked perhaps but dull.
>
> My knife plunged into some
> Old dried wood. Its handle
> Of Osage orange bright
> And well-cared for
> Amidst the dried
> Wreck of a tree,
> Those parts of me.
>
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