Liberation

This marks the date, March 15, in 1945 that the Liberation of Holland began -- a campaign my father took part in as a member of the Essex Scottish Regiment.

So I was thinking of him today and these "notes" for a poem popped in my head as I walked home from work. I write them down here before they disappear forever, and who knows, they may become a poem some day.



There are rules

when Dad sleeps
nestled, drunk
in the fallen Christmas
tree --
step over him
talk
about something
[or] else