My name is Jonathan Edward Ambrose. I am eleven-years-old, nearly twelve, and very astute for my ageto my notion. Im confined to a wood and metal contraption called a wheelchair. The year is 1910. Jonathan dream leaps to events of the Second Battle of Newtonia in southern Missouri occurring October 28, 1864. His dreams appear vivid realities in which Aurelia Sutton, a young woman who died during childbirththat same fateful dayappears to him. She passed in the same bedroom Jonathan now occupies nearly a half-century later. Aurelia becomes the angelic mediator assisting Jonathan to cope with his brothers deteriorating brain injury. Jonathan, in turn, becomes his brothers hope. Young Jonathan also believes in his own healing. Maybe he will not only walk and runmaybe he will fly. The aeroplane [Golden Flier] has arrived! It has yet to feel the sky beneath its wings. the arrival of a 1910 Curtiss aeroplane to the Ambrose farm. Jonathan considers mercy to be raining not only on his family, but, considering events, the entire 320 acres of the family farm. I have not been entirely candid; mind you, it is not some great breach of literary ethics. Jonathan, 1999
The cover Photo of his “Hands” the author sculpted in 1974. It is an illustration of life sinking and rising...hopefully, at last—rising. That is the theme of every poem or novel he’s written. “I’m given to believe life is a prayer and Poetry a medium. For me to believe otherwise to forfeit life’s sacredness. Poetry affirms life regardless of subject matter.” Jerry James Rempp believes himself to be part mystic and part existentialist. His verses range from philosophical to the lyrical reflecting dreams of childhood. He compares himself similar to the universalism of Walt Whitman.
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