endlessly painting the foundation,
shoring it up, tweaking it, admiring it,
defending it,
clobbering others with bricks
left over from it …
and over and over
going down into it
to live in the
dank, darkness
as they pull the
tarp over it
peering out one last time
with eyes filled with
a fear that contains
no wonder….
they forgot, as sappho and
salinger advised, to
“raise high the roofbeam,
carpenters.”
—- a poem by Tom Eggebeen and Bob Dahl
From a phone conversation we had the other day … Bob did the writing … a fine writer with an ocean-wide heart and keen mind … glad to know him.