Wednesday, September 16, 2015

The Bean Harvest

-------The Bean Harvest-------

The momentum of progress slows 
in the mind of those 
who hear the threshing sticks,

who have seen the dance 
shake loose a hundred seeds 
borne from one.

A promise turns to an Autumn wind 
and carries the empty pods 
into a meadow of golden rod, 

gold and green
the callused hands
the rhythmic earth

together manifesting 
a memory 
of home.


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