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“My son’s illness is eight years old and has no name. It started when he was fourteen. He is now twenty-two. It is taking away his ability to walk and to reason. It is getting worse, some years more rapidly than others.” read more
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Blog Leighton McKeithen
Love/is no less practical/than a coffee grinder*
June 9, 2013
Responding on my mother’s behalf to the sympathy cards she’s received read more
Tags: Cameron, combat, gratitude, Greenwich Village, Jack Gilbert, James Wright, Jane Hirshfield, Leighton McKeithen, North Carolina, obligation, poems, Robert Bly, Seamus Heaney, thanks, Tony Hoagland, WWII
Abundance
May 16, 2013
Leighton B. McKeithen, Jr.
March 12, 1925 – May 8, 2013
Tags: Cameron, father, Fayetteville, Leighton McKeithen, North Carolina, poetry, Presbyterian, tribute, William Stafford, WWII