I love to sit and dream of days long past,
Of a chubby, brown-haired girl
Dressed in checks and stripes, a feather-
plumed hat on her head–
Sitting in her little doll room
Eating a pound of potato chips
–laughing–
Published in Parnassus in Print (1971); The Discerning Poet (2004).
Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin 
I remember the seventies and writing back in those days. This brings a smile to my face.
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Parnassus in Print is from Wauwatosa East High School! I saved it all these years…
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Love it! i remember that periodical. And I think I fixed my info–I’ll know in a minute!
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And I remember that you and Joe remember my father as a teacher at Tosa East. My mother loved hearing this story during her last illness. God is good.
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Happy Birthday to the little brown-haired girl! It will be a joy to follow your poetry in the coming year.
Love, Mary
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Hi Mary,
What a lovely surprise to read your comment! Hope you have a Happy New Year too!
Love, Ellen
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Such a vivid image and telescope in time
to a most pleasant place and quality of being!
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Dear Tom,
Thank you very much!
And now I sit in this little room, many years and miles North of that other little room, and write…as I know you write through the years of your life as well. So well.
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