Gordon Taylor

Today, contributor Gordon Taylor, whose “Memory Foam” is free to read on our site, sends us this delightful dispatch from his family archives. The Moonbeam Elf In a recent conversation with my mother, we discussed my passion for poetry in spite of how other members of our family are not overtly literary. My mother is …

I dropped into my father’s casketa faded photoin which he stood on a beach, ankle deepin an ocean wave, lifting a child.He swung me high into morning.My bucket hat flew from my head,landing in a moat circling a fortressmolded from sand and store-boughtconch shells.His powdered face at restless beautiful than his surprisewhen milk for our …