April 2023 Blog
One Step Beyond: A Haiku
One
never knows how
Many
steps it takes until
One
can take no more.
by Ann Wilmer-Lasky
(3/31/23)
On the night of Sunday,
March 26, 2023, my son Vernon Ray Wilmer, Jr. took that final step and left this
life for no good reason.
He was an avid Star Trek
fan and will be long remembered for the Borg he portrayed in the Las Vegas
Hilton’s “Star Trek – The Experience” during its tenure there. He has many
friends from that experience, and they are as much in the dark about what
happened as I am. He was indeed a Borg Extraordinaire!
This blog is dedicated to
him and his memory. He was a brilliantly talented man. He shone as an artist, a
photographer, a videographer, and a film editing genius, among other things.
As a teenager, he
illustrated both of my Castleweaver poetry chapbooks, bringing Eldreth and his
madness to life.
In the future, I will
donate $1.00 from the sale of each Castleweaver book to a suicide prevention
organization (please let me know if you’re familiar with such a group) in hopes
that another mother will not lose her son for no good reason.
https://tinyurl.com/y9d8czj4
https://tinyurl.com/y6x9pqno
Eldreth, himself, is in agony fpr the tragic loss of the artist who gave him eternal life.
Contemplations of a Madman
The accumulated junk
of
myriad years
lies foul upon my soul ;
The fetid pool
of
a million uncried tears
attempts to take its toll...
As always, I welcome your
reactions and responses to any of my blogs. I love to hear from my readers.
Also, here are links to my Twitter and Facebook accounts, if you care to share
your thoughts with me there or look for any publication announcements.
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It’s now April. It is now Spring,
and I hope it will be kinder to us all.
(By the way – anyone
thinking this is a prank, it isn’t and I wouldn’t!)
