MEMORIES OF KEEWAYDIN

(Near Hinsdale, New Hampshire)
	
by 
Gwen Austin
Copyright 2001


In a walk through our spirit home
I touch each precious thing

mellow walnut-cased
grandfather's clock 
whose chime
noted passing time

clay pottery bowls
from Mexico
brought by an uncle 
we never knew

a cross-stitched piece
celebrating trees
created by a sister-in-law

woods-theme paintings
from New York's Lower East Side
flanking fireplace
of granite and field stone

framed photo collection
of all churches
pastored by
the Reverend Charles L. Austin

oil painting of our valley view
rendered by our sister
deceased at twenty-two

ragged-covered photo albums
pin-pointing our family's
passage of time

All this but a walk in the mind

for a fickle fire
reduced all to ash

yet memories remain