How will I, with justice, cross these fields in words
     and not trample
                “what they did here?”

Perfect in architecture:
	Hills rising from valleys, 
                              	Streams rising from beds,    
	God-like boulders rising
                              from everywhere

What was once all the dead and the dying
     now green with the living
     or flowing with life

How will I not return to death the sacred memories
              still walking, 
    maybe sill warring back and forth across these grounds?

Now is not the time to blanket dismiss or tear apart
          (there are “facts” no one agrees upon)

But close your eyes with me
    I am not your historian.
  I am no Coddington, Gallhager or Dreese.

I am your poet
    Like you, I am only trying to understand
          that fleeting, that fading
   near silly concept
       dripping questions eternal
    and groping for more details

There are 160,000 primary sources still hovering
         over and within
  but this is not one of them

This is my life spent in awe
   all near tears wandering Gettysburg
This is my plate offered
   yes humbly,   for you
Take eat, this is my life
        as much as it is yours

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Also to Jeff.

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