Image: Ron Grimes’ The Old Homestead
At the End of the Road
In Memoriam
Bert Richardson
January 12, 1913 – August 5, 2000
The way the road turns
Then after a short slog
Runs uphill and turns again
Then runs on and on
Uphill and downhill
More turning — more winding
Until it hits U.S. Highway 27
Running north and south —
You must have felt
You had brought Kentucky
Right along with you
As you and Mommy planted
Your flag along with the garden
At the end of that country road
Waiting for the vegetables
To feed you in that foreign land
Where becoming a Hoosier
Must have been made you
Think hard about the changes
That your life would run through
Like that winding road
Full of ups and downs and turns.
—from my collection titled At the End of the Road
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