BREWER/DOUGLAS/WAGNER/WELBORN

To Drummond Welborn, Virginia Ancestor, whose house "was not entirely finished in 1718 when he hanged himself because of financial difficulties."

Time has blown down your web
of bricks
you wove with your life.

Two centuries later
I walk
upon this sandy earth
in search of weathered remains.

Bricks,boards,bones,
that mighty tombstone,
all are shadows,
forever lost,
execpt your words of pain,
crying,crying,crying
down through the centuries
and through my blood.

Laura Welborn Douglas