Marine on St Croix, Minnesota, USA
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Marine on St Croix
Amazing Grace - Amazing Place
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Review what citizens envisioned 12 years ago
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St Croix Garden
The Garden of My Inimitable Wife, Ginny Averill
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Support BOOKS FOR AFRICA
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Follow Marine's Own
Mark and Elizabeth Odegard
Their Adventures at:
http://www.MarkandElizabeth.blogspot.com/
Also, see Mark's artwork & longtime journal at:
http://www.odegardjournal.net
4th of July Photos
Fireman's Ball
and to thanks to
Firefighters and Ambulance Crew
And THANKS for
a great
3rd of July Fireworks
and
Marine's Annual 4th of July festivities
Race and Parade and ancillary events
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our fourth on third street
in the solar-noon heat of this new july, cicadas steam in the creeping-charley salad of our side yard
still perfect from yesterday’s mowing before the storm, accompanied by distant slamming screen doors, muted summer voices of children and a shadow percussive orchestra of ladyfingers, blackcats and sirens from the parade. in the closeness of this dining room, ghosts of cellar air remind us of grotto earth and how old our house is
as we cool in the wash from the fan on the porch remembering summers: her memphis, west drive with agnes eating jellyroll cakes and watermelon, drinking iced cokes before dinner, barefoot on the kitchen tiles, laughing. his west, along the highline, eastern slope wind and heat with cherry bombs, artillery simulators and half sticks of dynamite from the reservation, alone. in the evening the thunk of the ground mortar signals the oooh from the crowd,
the burst high above the aaah; thunk, oooh, burst aaah; thunk oooh, burst aaah. chest pounding aerial compressions bounce off wisconsin and echo the intensity of these twenty minutes as dogs disappear and we wonder what the birds do. then the big finish. then the applause. then the traffic and serene marine sighs quietly again- happy birthday america. Fred Holmquist Marine on St Croix, Minnesota |
Till we see thee
So Long, Surya
Mrs. Kavanaugh
