These are short fiction and poems from my work in documenting the Maryland life I saw around me.

I carried the poem "Chris Craft" overseas with me to Vietnam. Often I'd hear homesick songs like "Green, Grass of Home" and set my copy of "Chris Craft" next to my beer and think back to the friends and times at home.

"Night Bugs" was an allegorical short story about Vietnam. It showed my images of forest opponents clashing with bright sparks of fear and rage in darkness.

Most men carry a picture of the prettiest girl they ever saw. "Redhead" was mine.

"Green ribbon" dates back to my real estate days in Baltimore. I write that as an unvarnished photograph of the way it was and still is I suppose. A graduate professor at Johns Hopkins told me he and his students found a great number of images in this story which at the time I did not know I had written.

"Hant" was published in the Johns Hopkins Magazine in a story about photographs of weathered houses falling down in the wetlands of the Chesapeake Bay. The word "hant" is a local colloquial from the Old English they speak in the lower Chesapeake Bay meaning haunt or ghost.

"Tree Death" came to mind when I spent several years in New York and New England forests working with men who cut trees for a living. Often when I toppled great trees with my chainsaws I thought of their life.

The assassination of President Kennedy was the subject of "You Know," brought to mind several weeks after his death when a military cargo plane crashed coincidentally on a field near Washington, DC, destroying a soybean field that was being harvested.

From a Scottish cavalier story read to me by my grandmother in my childhood, I remembered King Bruce recovered from defeat and beat the King of England and his army after Bruce rested in a cave and watched the valiant efforts of a spider. Needless to say, these creatures have always been a source of amazement to me and occasioned "Spiders."

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• Literature & Fiction

• Publication Date: October 6, 2018
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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• Print Length: 28 Pages
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