[stylist] poem submission

Mon Mar 5 18:30:35 UTC 2012

Barbara,
Scotty was twenty years old. He said he was going on a hike to where he
could take off higher until he could see Weaver's Needle in a full moon. He
said to ,"call out the Marines if he was not back in four days. He was an
experience hiker and had worked a summer in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho,
as well as having rock climbed since he was twelve. Our advice against going
alone held no sway. My husband and I left for Globe where I was teaching a
belly dancing class. My oldest son called in four days to say Scott was not
back yet.
My husband and I returned and called the Sheriff's Department. They were in
an extensive search for a special needs child who had wandered off into the
desert, so the search was delayed for a day. My youngest son and his buddy
had dropped Scott off, so we knew the exact spot from where he had started.
When the Sherriff, a horseman, and fifty Indian trackers could find nothing
after about four days, they called off the search. My husband and I hired a
well-known man and his German dog who had previously found many missing
person's. We furnished a pair of socks stuffed in a pair of Scott's boots.
The dog tracked him to a four-wheel drive road, indicating that he had
gotten a ride out. My husband died within two years, after a divorce and a
re-union, and I went on to hire a private detective, involved the Salvation
Army, and exhausted all resources.
After many years the man who owned The railroad and park at the base of the
Superstitions was in a helicopter checking out a glint of what he hoped was
gold on the ledge of Black Mountain near the top.
His nephew spotted a skull which they determined was not a cow, and they
notified the Sheriff's department who had a new detective who happened to be
reviewing cold cases. They sent in a helicopter which was able to rest one
of the slides on the ledge while an anthropologist gathered everything he
could find. The skull and thirty pieces of bone which was identified by the
dental records, and indicated Scott had probably fallen when he tried to
climb down a crevasse. The left femur was broken near the top which would
have put him down. He must have managed to crawl to a big rock to lean
against, for that is where the bones were found. No cell phones then. It was
a mystery how he found the one and only way to the top of the mountain. 
This is long, and each detail can lead to another part of the story, which
is why I started the book. At the moment he started his journey, so did I
start mine. Perhaps he found himself. I am still not sure about myself.
Jackie

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Barbara Hammel
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 10:45 AM
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Subject: Re: [stylist] poem submission

So, Jackie, was he hiking alone and died on the trek?  I like the way you 
make the child seem so vivid.  And the desolate description of his remains 
is an apt description, too of how our hearts feel.  How old was he?
Barbara

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. -- Carl Sandburg
-----Original Message----- 
From: Jacqueline Williams
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 12:12 AM
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Subject: Re: [stylist] poem submission

Brad,
I tried this a while ago, and I think the wrong file got attached. Tried to
remove or stop. Not quite sure what happened. I'll try again.
Death in the Desert is the poem I wrote after my son's remains were found.
Your sensitivity is appreciated and I know you come by it honestly having a
brother who died.
And, Yes, Barbara, 80% of marriages fall apart after the loss of a child.
Mine did, after 26 years.
Poetry is a healing craft and helps all of us who write it to get through
anything, and the silver lining is somehow to start seeing the humorous side
of many things.
Jackie

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Brad Dunsé
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 5:00 PM
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Jackie and others with a similar loss,

I watched the suffering my parents went through
with the loss of my brother. I never want to find
out, but the professionals in the world say there
is no greater greif than the loss of a child.

Brad

On 3/4/2012  05:24 PM Jacqueline Williams said...
>Brad,
>Thanks. That was a great summation of my poem. It was about the death of my
>middle son, found out 14 years after he disappeared in the Superstition
>Mountains.
>Incidentally, I loved your piece, Cry, Baby, Cry. I think it would make a
>great  song, but I am no song writer.
>Jackie
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>Behalf Of Brad Dunsé
>Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 3:38 PM
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>
>Congrats Jackie. I like your poem. It summarizes:
>
>"Sometimes you really can't go around what you've
>got to go through, but you can always get through
>what seems impossible to get over"." --Capt'n Frank
>
>Brad
>
>
>On 3/4/2012  04:21 PM Jacqueline Williams said...
> >Brad,
> >You've got four.
> >I'm privileged to join Lynda, Myrna, and Shawn. I had two poems put in
> >"Arizona: 100 Years, 100 Poems, 100 Poets,"
> >In Honor of Arizona's 100th Year of Statehood.
> >You have all read the one called, "My Fingertips Braille You to Me, so I
> >will not attach that one. The other, Illusions of Farewell, is an
> >attachment. It might also qualify for Barbara's assignment for "crying."
> >Jackie
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> >Behalf Of Brad Dunsé
> >Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 9:44 AM
> >To: Writer's Division Mailing List
> >Subject: Re: [stylist] poem submission
> >
> >We've got poems on the Writer's lisst publishing
> >auction block. I got a 3 anybody 4 imabiddin'4
> >anybody  give a 4.  I gotta 3 imabiddin'4
> >anbydoby biddin' for imabiddin'4 imabiddin'4?
> >I've got 3? I'm lookin gfor a 4? Going once? Going twice? ...
> >
> >Congrats!
> >
> >Brad
> >
> >
> >
> >On 3/2/2012  08:27 AM KajunCutie926 at aol.com said...
> > >And you can add me to the bubbly group.. My poem  'Clothe Me' will be
> > >appearing with you guys.  I am thrilled to say
> > >the  least and what fine company
> > >to be sharing it with!
> > >Myrna
> > >
> > >
> > >In a message dated 3/2/2012 8:24:58 A.M. Central Standard Time,
> > >llambert at zoominternet.net writes:
> > >
> > >I am  bubbling with ya. I got a note from Margaret two days ago - they
>are
> > >publishing my poem _Vilanelle for my Mother at Eighty_  so I will be
>there
> > >with ya!
> > >
> > >Lynda
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From:  "Jacobson, Shawn D" <Shawn.D.Jacobson at hud.gov>
> > >To: "'Writer's  Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> > >Sent: Friday, March 02,  2012 8:01 AM
> > >Subject: [stylist] poem submission
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> > >
> > > > Dear  group.
> > > >
> > > > I believe I have some good news.  Recently, I sent  my poem, The
>Kraken
> > >at
> > > > Sunset, to Magnets and Ladders.  I got an  Email from their editor
> >saying
> > > > they like the topic and wanted to know  if they could make some
minor
> > > > changes.  I said yes.  I  think that means they accepted my work.
OK,
> > >I'm
> > > > thrilled and a  little bubbly.
> > > >
> > > > Shawn Jacobson
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