Death is creeping about tonight even if not in person, his demons are on the prowl. I’m not ready to cope or accept. My father his time is nigh, I am not ready. That story can’t be written. Sisters calling can’t pick up the phone I will walk to the desk to answer just not now. He knows who it is, his love for me is now. I didn’t know him before I have to say goodbye to a stranger. In the presence of strained and short conversations. It is come to this, long uncomfortable silence. Family seeing me as strange and alone not knowing me or what I dealt with. Knowing my mother as a hero my eyes to heaven through her love. Her protection prayers to My Holy Father. Her anguish,Love for me wondering what I will do. Can he handle it. Yes is the answer. She raised a warrior in her own model and shape. These thoughts I see I don’t hear. I am a son of a man and woman of strength, courage. I will do what I know I must.
Early Works is an exhaustive compilation of the first decade of the poems and stories of Z.B.McClure. Included are family photos, rare personal photos, photos of 1st draft manuscripts of many of his early poems. Also some biography and memoir materia