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Chad Jeffrey Norris

May 14, 1973 - June 16, 1993

Age 20
Murder

MOTHER...Rita Edmonds-Norris

SIBLINGS...Twin Brothers - Matthew and Daniel

PLACE OF BURIAL...Rockville Cemetery, Suisun Valley, CA

This Mourning

This morning,
I held your small, white christening clothes,
To my face, breathing deeply.
Trying to remember,
Twenty years ago . . . the honeyed, infant smell.
Warm, downy head,
Sweetness.
Blue-veined, translucent skin,
Dimpled chin.

This morning,
I held your beat-up, straw cowboy hat,
To my face, breathing deeply.
Trying to remember,
Six months ago . . . the heady, young man smell.
Curly, blond hair.
Sweetness.
Tan, beautiful skin.
Dimpled chin.
 
This mourning
. . .