From protest to memory

Day 5 NaPoWriMo

Aubade

i.m. Tim Garland 1955-1979

The morning you spent on deck with the crew

then came running to tell us we’d be having

flying fish that night for dinner and Dad

said they were only being kind to you because

it was your sixth birthday.

The morning you didn’t believe me I said

there had been an earth-quake. The picture on the wall

had tilted in its frame. In the night ...

Tim and buffalo calf
Clearwater Bay, Hong Kong
c. 1961

There's both more work to be done on this, and there is more of the poem I haven't posted here.