June 8, 2023
REMEDIES
Is life one long search for remedies?
How to fix a broken heart?
How to heal the cut?
How to stop the blood?
How to know what to say
at the funeral parlor?
The best way to raise a kid?
How to forgive a brother or a sister?
Whom do we talk to when we have
to talk to someone?
Is life one long search for remedies?
© Reflections,
Andy Costello
June 7, 2023
STATEN ISLAND FERRY
Way before the Verrazano Bridge
As kids we loved a trip across the Narrrows –
that water way between Brooklyn
and Staten Island – on the ferry.
5 cents, Looking back I never asked
my dad his thoughts – as he stood
at the railing – seeing boats – from
everywhere. Did it bring him back to
his arrival in America by boat from Ireland?
That’s one more question I never asked
him – one more wondering – about his life.
Was there any grammar school teacher
who gave us questions to ask our parents
when we got home from school or are
these just one more of the many questions
we get long after they died?
© Reflections,
Andy Costello
June 6, 2023
WHEELS
I have always heard that Native Americans
never came up with the idea or wheels.
Wheels would have certainly made life
that much easier for everyone. Definitely….
When wagons rolled by – when trains
arrived – how would one explain the
obvious – whatever they are, they
certainly make lugging stuff from
here to there less of a burden.
Was that why Who little boys love toys
with wheels? Who invented the wheel
in the first place. Who and where?
The why is obvious. Let’s get moving.
© Reflections,
Andy Costello
