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Memories Rescued from Childhood Amnesia

And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew…

12 min readApr 30, 2022

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Photograph of the author’s family when he was two years old, with him and his sisters sitting in front of their smiling parents.

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Chocolate Makers and Missionaries

My Mother’s Side of the Family

33 min readMay 1, 2022

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Old-timey illustrations, left to right, Walter Baker Chocolate Factory in Lower Mills area of south Boston and a New York City rescue mission.

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That’s Life: Writing Again after All These Years

Streaming classic Frank Sinatra songs, I found myself singing along: “I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet / A pawn and a king……

8 min readApr 30, 2022

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That’s Life: Writing Again after All These Years

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Talking with John Gill at the Elysian Fields Cafe

1. You’re gaunt as Gauguin’s Yellow Christ, John, and your iconoclasm is so ingrained I see you’re cringing at that comparison.

3 min readJun 30, 2022

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Photo of Taughannock Falls, autumn foliage accenting gray chasm walls.

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David Dayton

The Bus to San Simón

Motor groaning through a muffler that’s more like a microphone, this village jalopy lurches and rocks, rattling along at a jaunty burro’s…

2 min readMay 17, 2022

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The Bus to San Simón

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David Dayton

The Housewarming

When we first moved in we found cigarette butts everywhere, columns of flaky ash marking where the old lady dropped them, and then forgot…

1 min readJul 25, 2022

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Close-up of old woman exhaling cigarette smoke.

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David Dayton

Photograph of a Suicide in the Morning Paper

Like jumping for the first time

1 min readJul 14, 2022

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Young woman sitting on the edge of a cliff overlooking water.

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David Dayton

Nebraska Noir, 1973

While fishing in Harry Strunk Lake, Dean McQuiety reeled in a foot and then an arm with hand attached. The detective said and I quote…

1 min readJul 12, 2022

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David Dayton

Dusk

Spreading a stain of ripe mango The sun dissolves among plum-colored clouds

1 min readJul 12, 2022

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Photograph of the sun setting over a ridge on the far side of a body of water, with autumn-colors among the trees in the foreground. Photographer: David Dayton.

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David Dayton

Mother’s Day

I’m tired of keeping my eyes tethered to the same old roads, seeing so much of so little of life through a windshield. I keep spying on my…

1 min readJul 5, 2022

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Woman in driver’s seat of a stopped car, looking distressed

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David Dayton

David Dayton

See https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/david_dayton Here, you’ll find draft chapters of a memoir and drafts of poems to be published in a book on Amazon.

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