Tag Archives: mother

Mom Would Have Been 93

Posted on January 20, 2016 by toritto

Mom, me with the glasses and my two brothers.  The baby is already gone My mother Mary would have been 93 years old this week. She is gone longer than she was here – she will be gone 50 years on … Continue reading →

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The Big Game

Posted on September 2, 2015 by toritto

For my eldest son Daniel Jason, who would be 42 now, but will always remain forever young A son is buried ‘neath Monmouth fields at the mountain of the little olives just a short pass from Vince Lombardi whom I’m … Continue reading →

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Picasso in Kandahar

Posted on May 20, 2015 by toritto

A Picasso face with one eye a piece of nose a dented skull distorted melted cubism done in red black and blue one hand one and a half limbs. A rearranged montage of her soldier son. His mother turned away … Continue reading →

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Mother and Son – A Repost for Mother’s Day

Posted on May 11, 2014 by toritto

Mother and Son – 1980 . She sits beneath a massive oak in the Garden of Noble Women. Garden of the Promise  for those who have borne the burden yet never  heard the Word.  . He never walked. He never fed … Continue reading →

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For Michael, who would have been 39 on April 17 – and for her, gone 10 years on April 19   Mother and Son – 1980 . She sits beneath a massive oak in the Garden of Noble Women. Garden … Continue reading →

Posted on April 10, 2014 by toritto | 2 Comments