We carried corn
For the deer;
Blocks of salt-lick, too,
Strollin’ through fields like snail’s teeth,
Wearing lumberjack shirts & fuzzy-eared hats.
Our boots, muddy,
Wet & slick;
Lower lips, filled with dew.
Thinkin’ we was doin’ Mother Nature’s Work:
Some o’ this & some o’ that.
Broken branches
Filled our path,
Snappin’ in the fog—
& we dreamed Big Dreams,
Like conquerin’ distant Worlds.
Crossin’ streams
With tight-rope toes,
Steppin’ on old logs.
(Millions o’ miles in the air,
Where we’d meet Angel Girls.)
Such memories form
On grainy, rainy days—
Marchin’ through time’s sumptuous mist.
As muses clenched our tattered clothes,
& love-tears got caught in a spider webs.
The corn & salt,
Sweat & walks,
Long-since bitter-kissed.
Where are those idle dream-boys now?
Swept away by life’s flows & ebbs.
About the Creator
j.s.lamb
Retired journalist. Author of "Orange Socks & Other Colorful Tales," a collection of short stories about how I survived the U.S. Navy and kept my sense of humor. (Available on Amazon.)
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