My great grandfather
built his home in Southern Iowa
out back was a grove of ash trees
the people called the town Ash Grove
now gone from the map
forgotten place
I can still see the changing color
of leaves falling to the ground
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dVerse quadrille prompt on the word ash
wordshophop 
such a sweet memory, Jane ❤
-David
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I love the conversational tone in this. It seems almost impossible that a town could disappear so quickly, but I know it happens. There’s something very poignant in that last memory.
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I can picture it myself from the image you’ve conjured up: haunting!
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This one reminds me how values are so deep seeded & rooted in experience.My heart aches for the loss of muscadine & wild plum in Georgia.
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