Sharon Gibson

I pull the calendar forward
across the desk – my hand
writes five more dates
taken up by trivia –
postponing the inevitable.

(By Sharon Easterbrook Gibson)

I can re-form the past,
voices and faces
have a habit of not fading
– they hang – hovering -
refusing to dissolve.
Bones do not become dust
they haunt the living -
like wind rattled chimes
echoing lost hallelujahs.

I can close my eyes
and count - moving myself through the journey
knowing each
bump in the road,
each curve and bridge.

The air is different there.
It smells of the past.
Though nothing good ever stays put.
The town is skeletal now
like a leaf, that’s lost its life,
only the dried veins
reveal its past vitality.

I still get the tightening
in my chest -
that feeling of broken glass
in my throat,
when I know I will again drive crossing borders -
state to state,
county to county,
red clay hills to
black gumbo river bottoms.

I wrote this when I was thinking of all the hate that maga world has caused to bubble forth back home. I grew up mostly is the rural south and the Great Plains.

WAITING TO GO BACK

I push back the calendar,
a sign to myself
the drive can wait
another week.

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Sharon Gibson on Substack I am thinking of all the high poverty counties I served in Georgia. https://www.instagram.com/p/DLSbX65syOF/?img_index=1&igsh=MWk0dXh0bWM5NGc0Ng==

Before I retired I worked to bring the lives of Georgia’s families into the light. Many of the state’s counties struggle with high poverty and minimal resources.

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Sharon Gibson on Substack Isadora, Diana, and me Under the green briar and wisteria I am the little girl who dances chiffon scarves from Ben Franklin’s Five and Dime tied to my arms with cotton rug yarn, pink tights, ...

Sometimes our childhood memories call to us.
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Find your state

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Sharon Gibson on Substack Today my heart is heavy. I feel my country slowly sliding away. Makes me think of Hardy and Drummer Hodge. Will we, Americans, someday be forgotten, uncoffined, under strange stars. They throw in Dru...

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Sharon Gibson on Substack Today my heart is heavy. I feel my country slowly sliding away. Makes me think of Hardy and Drummer Hodge. Will we, Americans, someday be forgotten, uncoffined, under strange stars. They throw in Dru...

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Lindsey has a seat in hell waiting for him.

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FU JOHNSON

They are nit-wits.

Funny, this morning my husband shouted keep it up boys. Maybe they will destroy each other.

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Sharon Gibson on Substack “We exist only if we are real to others.” The Djinn (Three Thousand Years of Longing) How true.

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@anncleeves.bsky.social listening to your voice at the end of Raging Storm gave me such peace. I love your books. It is the genuine characters and the truthfulness of your story telling. When I read the first of the Mathew Venn book, I was transported to my grandfather Easterbrook’s childhood.

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What an idiot. Could the Kennedy family please hold an intervention, please for the good of their family and ourselves.