Offsite Post: ‘The Harden Ranch’

 

November’s cold has come round again

But no more family gatherings

Will be held at the Harden home.

Time has taken a heavy toll.

 

No more will we hear Aunt Jackie’s

Joyful laughter rippling from her smiling

Lips.  No more will we see the calm

Serenity of Uncle Lance’s face.

 

The gruff silence of Uncle Ken could be

Intimidating, but more shy was he

Than stern.  Aunt Norine was our never-

Tiring hostess, ever-busy

With the kitchen and endless laundry.

 

Granddad Art and Claire, his Yankee second wife,

Could be awkward, but we loved them all-alike.

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The rest is at https://www.reckonin.com/walt-garlington/the-harden-ranch.

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!