Into the Woods

Dense

Pop: Perspective

Across Borders

Warmer Times

Purple Rain

The Climb

Kendall and Brian

Nervous

Swirl Pop

Men and Chains

The road comes early

Like its been traveling all night

Beat

     On blacktop

     And the gritof photographs

 The pittedglare of the sun

Breaks tree topped hills

With every push of light

Every push of mile beneath his feet

He drives deeper into the falling sky

And rising dirt

Where it is just the sound of his sweat and steel

That makes the difference

He drives harder

At the wild inside

That cuts holes in his gut

The way time cuts men into a million tiny pieces

The way broken bottles build rear view mirrors

Long roads

And men with chains

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American: Made

Cracked

Kitten

Spirit

Voyeur

Middle Management

North Valley

It was stepping through walls

Through time

And standing on concrete

Much harder than anticipated

It was stepping into heartbreak

Into the lives of boys

And the place they became men

The moment they didn't

North Valley Chapel

Up just another dirt road

Un-assuming 

But a road all its own

And to the side

Amongst some tall weed and tree

It sits
A sanctuary without wall

Without window

No stained glass and scripture

No pulpit

No preacher, prophet or penance

A structure without structure

But not without strength

Built by boys

By Josh
Sam

Ben

And Aaron

Built by hands that never knew them
And hearts to remember them
And we sat, my son and I, as I told him the story

Of how things sometimes happen

That we cannot control

He understood

Boys had died here

That the wood on which we rested

Was cut from that burden

Just as trees had been cut from the valley

And chimney stones pulled from the sky

Burying men that were yet to be

And what became of them was this place
Where one might find god

Or solace

Or peace

Or just a place to put a memory
This Chapel in the North Valley





North Valley Chapel at Little Sioux Scout Ranch.  In 2008, 4 boys were killed and 48 others wounded after a tornado struck the camp--- http://www.ketv.com/news/16579276/detail.html


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