Giving In Truth is always there but sometimes far away a mere speck for a child a ship so far out it can't vie with a sand pail for importance then the news starts to roll in and all the names are gone we thought the horizon would eventually render back up so I took this photograph of Joe's old stage and all at once the images flared and disappeared of so many that my world had held and now I can't take a stroll down the lane to get a lobster. The old ledger has its last arthritic entry. In the end, you see truth gets all in your face and won't let you get by without you give her a kiss, a real old-fashioned honest to god frencher. 9 February 2025 Texas Jim Prospect, Nova Scotia www.granitecoast.ca