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When I can’t sleep I look at the moon and ponder wander.
My great great grandfather James Alexander Gilmour
owned and operated a cooperage in lower Manhattan.
The location of which is now a high rise financial building.
His boxes and barrels shipped product all over the world.
The entire family worked there including his father who
taught him the trade. As his father taught him in Killaloo.
His children called him Pappy. My grandchildren call me
Pappy. “The past is gone, we cannot go back.”
When I make a box it is as if I am sleep working.
I know how to do things I have not been taught.
The smell of wood shavings is like a drug.
The past is present in the wood.
The moon knows all the answers.
Markle~
11March2021
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