Palatial Estate

We were separated from the palatial estates of my childhood: but only in our minds.

Our estate was a cattle and vegetable farm with no indoor plumbing except in the barn.

When others were making the decisions, water was brought by buckets from the hand pump to the pantry.

Such esteem said much about priorities.

I loved that farm and that time however a shower would have been a grand addition to the palatial estate.

Dennis Mantin

Sunday

Woke up still tired.

I decided to stay in bed.

And drifted off somewhere.

Where you were in my head.

I was young and you were beauty.

You were Love and I was in kind.

And my eyes they slowly opened.

To where were both so hard to find.

Dennis Mantin.