We, the Coronado Scribes, consist of both professional and amateur writers. We have in common a desire to learn, by sharing our efforts and listening to other writers. We hold pressure-less sessions every Wednesday, at the Coronado Library conference room, starting at 1:30. Often we have guests who wish to just listen. They are welcome, and so are you.
Each week on eCoronado, we feature a different piece of prose or poetry produced by one of our writers. Please feel free to comment or ask questions in the comment section below.
Saying Goodbye Lieutenant JG, Again*
Here I stand in summer’s sweltering heat where corn and soy fields forever surround your resting body under a copper-scorched marker bearing your name, my name.
It has been such a long time since you went that rain-soaked road and wrapped yourself in your Odds 88, cold and blue, around that lonely Sycamore tree.
Requiescat in pace, JG.
We had so little in common.
You will recall I was here before to tell you that the life of your lovely
Long-yellow-haired, grinning, son-child-man, was taken, disease-drained.
But JG, we still had so little in common.
I am back again in that same summer heat with yet another story of death’s
Aberrance.
My beautiful, burdened son, not so long ago, had his life stolen from me and from you.
Neither of us had time to say goodbye;
Now we have something in common, JG
.
© Mike Lavin 2013
* Lieutenant (junior grade) (LTJG) is a junior commissioned
officer rank in the United States Navy
