Monday, December 3, 2018




Memory

Tonight I heard Hank Williams sing
“Cold, Cold Heart” 
and a blip in time
slipped through 
and made me cry
a little girl in a bar
listening to the jukebox 
with her smiling daddy
And it broke my heart 
to remember that daddy 
and that little girl
A memory as thin
as a gossamer curtain
haunts me still
when I hear Hank sing
And my daddy carries me back 
through the years
to that lonely little girl
wishing I could have seen
how it would break my heart 
and forever leave me lonely

Janice Kuykendall  
12/02/18