On her 100th Birthday
Jean Ruegge Schwarzwalder, May 29, 1920 - June 25, 2003.
The following is a re-post from last year:
MAY 29
Nineteen seventeen
Born into wealthy
Massachusetts patrician family.
Of an urban center.
Second of nine.
Life cut short
November 22
Nineteen sixty-three.
He molded my youthful politics
Into passionate, steadfast beliefs.
MAY 29
Nineteen twenty
Born into struggling
Nebraskan farming family,
In a tiny community.
Youngest of eleven.
Life ebbed out
June 25
Twenty o three.
She chiseled my youthful independence
Into confident, lifelong self-reliance.
TWO PLAYERS
On my personal stage
Of drama and comedy
In several acts.
Diane Moline