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FAMILY REUNION
Pierre Fontenot November 20, 2013 Comments Off on FAMILY REUNIONWe lived on the old home place, our little red house built new in the year of my first year in school, set up under a trio of gorgeous oak trees, a plot of
Read More »THE FORGIVENESS OF DEBORAH
Pierre Fontenot November 7, 2013 Comments Off on THE FORGIVENESS OF DEBORAHWhere are you Deborah? What was your story, little girl? Where are you now? _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ Deborah is on my mind, because I bullied her. I
Read More »Southern Hugs
Pierre Fontenot October 3, 2013 Comments Off on Southern HugsBy Pierre Fontenot If you’re in the vicinity of my age you might have a similar memory of first-time realizing that a lot of people in America don’t hug each other. I know.
Read More »Amazing Grace
Pierre Fontenot September 1, 2013 Comments Off on Amazing GraceShe’s on my mind tonight — she being the old song — just notes on a piano, no singing, no need. If there is a more powerful song in the history of all songs,
Read More »That Time When We Walked Into The Wrong Church
Pierre Fontenot August 15, 2013 Comments Off on That Time When We Walked Into The Wrong ChurchThis is how the memory goes … I don’t know where we’re going, or why, but we’ve been going all day, I’m just the little kid in the big back seat, Mom and Dad
Read More »Will There Be Rice ‘n Gravy In Heaven?
Pierre Fontenot July 18, 2013 Comments Off on Will There Be Rice ‘n Gravy In Heaven?I really hope God still lets us get hungry Up There, not starving, but that good kind of hungry, like when I was a kid, working or playing, just burning calories like a tornado
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