JWC

we always had to call them Sugar and Pappy.
even though she was from the North West
he was from the South though and could still remember the Magnolia trees,
and the big house he grew up in that his grandfather JWC built for them during reconstruction.
rumor was the last of the fleet of steamboats was sunk for insurance money
after the depression.
somewhere down there on the Flint the Big John sits in the silt.
at least whats left of him.
alligator gar resting on the brass bell that Mamie C. rang as a child
you never get to know the past till its to far gone
and then you make up the rest