AIRPORT MUSIC

AIRPORT MUSIC

Outside McCormick Air listening

David Hidalgo and Louie Pérez singing

The Long Goodbye, he sent money,

you know, it's a long song home

Los Lobos, tell me, Will the wolf

survive? Waiting for Swift Air

ETA 10:07.  At Rosemary's

Celebration of Life yesterday

I pick up Advent pamphlet

prayers placed in pew rack,

Mary Oliver's poem, standing

here, wherever we are, este

rincón del cielo, we're blessed

and blessing, God is within us,

my dad's middle name, he

could never believe his own name

what never got said, ever,

he wasn't allowed to. North

Dakota didn't permit it,

then or now, he would have

been shamed beyond

embarrassment, he suffered

in his naming, racked again

deportees waving back

into our corner of heaven.

Jim Bodeen

10 December 2019