To thee, who have given me St. Patrick’s in its entirety, my parents. Royal Avenue, Belfast, 1956. #Belfast #New York #Minneapolis #Milwaukee #happystpatricksday
Desolation Angel.
Highway 87 is a meditative drive. Hours of two laned road, flanked with defunct oil rigs and the encroaching sea. Abruptly, the road elbows at the desolute intersection of Highway 124. Signifing this transition is a 25 foot crucifix and on what would have been the afternoon of my brothers 58th birthday, typically the time of day I'd remember and call. He was stationed nearby, during my birth, while in the USAF. (These are the solacing moments of life.) I pulled over, grabbed a Lone Star, left the car door open as to hear the guitar of Jimmie Vaughan, sat on the hood, as the sea caressed the broken shells at my feet and began a poem,
The Stations of Brotherhood.
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