Wichita East High School Class Of 1962
Louise Allerheiligen (McClellan)
Sidonee passed in Jun 1987 from Diabetes. She is missed.
Marlis M. Manley (Broadhead)
My poem for Sidonie, sent a few months before she died
SOMEONE I SHOULD HAVE TAKEN WITH ME
Looking for Sidonie in strange places
I expect her to yawn and stretch
from behind the pages of old text books
I thought I saw her blonde reflection
in a glassblower's swan, her favorite shade of purple
but it was only a girl with smooth thighs
that had never felt insulin's daily bite
a hint of her remains
in an old poem about Monkey Island
where her father finally hauled
the once yar Miss Quote onto the bank
and set fire to our summer of '64
and the Valdois' pond is a a vanished landmark
it shrank to nothing two or three droughts ago
the dock where we piled our graduation dresses
now a sun-bleached skeleton
Love this Marlis!
Louise Allerheiligen (McClellan)
Sidonee passed in Jun 1987 from Diabetes. She is missed.
Marlis M. Manley (Broadhead)
My poem for Sidonie, sent a few months before she died
SOMEONE I SHOULD HAVE TAKEN WITH ME
Looking for Sidonie in strange places
I expect her to yawn and stretch
from behind the pages of old text books
I thought I saw her blonde reflection
in a glassblower's swan, her favorite shade of purple
but it was only a girl with smooth thighs
that had never felt insulin's daily bite
a hint of her remains
in an old poem about Monkey Island
where her father finally hauled
the once yar Miss Quote onto the bank
and set fire to our summer of '64
and the Valdois' pond is a a vanished landmark
it shrank to nothing two or three droughts ago
the dock where we piled our graduation dresses
now a sun-bleached skeleton
Louise Allerheiligen (McClellan)
Love this Marlis!