Plane Crash in Iowa, February 3rd, 1959* snow, night and pilot error (or was it the toss of a coin?) pitched them into a cornfield as I was being born no one then remarked the co-incidence of events or informed me ever of their augury except perhaps Bruegel whose Icarus fell to the sea while oblivious earth was being plowed underneath of course neither myth nor pride had risen that day to precipitate the music’s dying . . . it was merely another sad end in a world of beginnings *Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper) died in a plane crash on this day First published in Shaking Like a Mountain, 2008
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I touch on this day a bit with my sonnet, To Don and Vincent Both
(and Buddy in Between).
🎈Wonderful poem & tribute Paird with an extraordinary painting.