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Chattahoochee Song: #1

Oh, my mother, did you paddle the river

Or cast long, slow-motion lines—ambitionless

To net a mess of sun-flashed rainbow trout?

You, the dreamer, whose river fortune I never knew,

What tunes did you hum to bankside gurgles

And brief rapids gushing white into midstream?

Barbara & Bunny—Ladies of the Greatest Generation

My mother lived by one of Barbara’s finest quotes: “Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people—your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.”

When a Dogwood Snowed Alabama

Easter sunrise warmed dogwood petals

To full flowering, as creamy

And rose-tinged as my mother’s cheeks.

She spared the yard’s scraggliest dogwood,

And I perched on its spreading limbs

Every April, barely poking

Above a snowy field of blooms—

Until a hot updraft touched down,

Showering my white dreams on cool ground.

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