The Start <br />By Reid Baer <br /><br />The handle feels easy in his <br />father’s palm and the steel head has <br />a certain raw potency of <br />its own ready for the anvil <br />and the flattening of the iron <br />in his son John … so with a jerk <br />and sudden movement down and a <br />rebound upward the great hammer <br />bounces a beat or two then comes <br />to rest at center mass in the <br />creation, manipulation, <br />of another generation’s <br />soul – this is the boy’s sudden start - <br />startling from the beginning to <br />the end never apart from the <br />early formation forever <br />reverberating through parts of <br />this man’s mind and surely his heart. <br />-
