Tag: memory

• Names

  

  Army time runs early, and o’dark-thirty comes fast. I’ve put this uniform on for thirty years. In the predawn dark, muscle memory does the work. Service-T, boot socks, uniform trousers, web belt, boots. My hands make the adjustments without being told. Last, the blouse. Patches, rank, name tapes, precisely in place. Regulations matter. The process…

  Rob Wyatt

  October 5, 2026

  Prose, The Long Carry

  appalachia, connection, family inheritance, identity and self, love, memoir, memory, names, poetic prose

• Memorial Day

  

  Part of me never came home. Part of me never left.

  Rob Wyatt

  May 25, 2026

  Prose, Unshielded

  army, cost, endurance, honesty, journey, loss, memory, patriotism, poetic prose, regret, sacrifice, service, war

• The Bourbon Worked Anyway

  

  Time did not slow to match the size of my grief.

  Rob Wyatt

  May 21, 2026

  Prose, Unshielded

  bourbon, grief, introspection, longing, memory, ordinary life, poetic prose, reflection, time

• Don’t Do That, It Hurts

  

  Some men only know how to hand love across sideways.

  Rob Wyatt

  May 13, 2026

  Prose, Walking the Field

  appalachia, awareness, connection, journey, lived experience, love, memory, middle life, phenomenology, poetic prose, record, reflection, scars, Walking the Field, words

• Same Page, Different Light

  

  The same page reads differently under different light.

  Rob Wyatt

  May 8, 2026

  Prose, Walking the Field

  growth, honesty, introspection, journey, lived experience, memory, poetic prose, quiet contemplation, reflection, Walking the Field

• Grain

  

  The truth of a thing lives in its grain.

  Rob Wyatt

  March 5, 2026

  Held Ground, Prose

  honesty, memory, phenomenology, poetic prose, silence, texture

• Edges

  

  The past does not ask to be made gentle.

  Rob Wyatt

  February 9, 2026

  Held Ground, Prose

  grace, grief, growth, honesty, memory, poetic prose, reflection