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Maud Lorraine Gottwalls, Age 14
(My Mum. On back in her beautiful handwriting:
Greensboro High School, Junior Class 1931)
Intimate Unknown
In our life
Lives we know/didn’t
know
even though
Mother, Father, grand, 2nd hand
have lives beyond our
birth
tales they didn’t
tell
tales we did not
tell
true tales, not smooth
fabrications
made, put-on masks
of lives we did
not live
shielding,
cautioning
intimate lives lived
untold, between
you
the other
the pain, the
pleasure
the fear, the
horror, the wonders
not told
yet
sometimes echoing
in
the strange
canyons of aloneness
in the quiet of
night
or the whorl of
the crowd
always arriving
unaware
unbidden
in the deepest
niches of mind
and body
alarms of secrecy
screeching
tonelessly
a taste on the
wind a glimpse
16 August -18
October 2018
©James M.
Frase-White 10/2018
Grandpop & Grandmom Gottwalls
w/unknown Girl
My (Step)Father, Joseph F. White & Little me, @1951 or 2
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