“Will I ‘member December 9th?”

Will Wednesday* go

unremembered or a dream

come the night before?

 

*Wednesday, December 9, will be special to me.  December 9, 1970 I awoke to ask myself ‘was that a mortar?’ when a rocket propelled grenade (B-40 RPG) turned my universe white and blind and tasting of cordite.  Like my birthday, both days in December often go unremarked.  It was the dream I had December 6 that presaged the events of 3:30 a.m. 12-9-70 that had – and still does – me confused. About That much more much later.)

“Dark Clouds, Sweet Reverie”

Waking dream visits

as I ‘racewalk’ townupwards

the gathering threats.