WHAT
THEY HAD TO SAYWhat they had to say
about salt blocks, sparrow
hawks, hand brakes,
lace doilies, pieces of
fingers the saws dropped,
chopping thistles out of
new grass, cash
and carry, nary a pot to
piss in, fishing
for flatheads with dead
puppies on a trot line,
time and its going-on-ness,
messes made
and fell back in, sin and
its easy-to-findness,
kindnesses during bad stretches,
what fetches
us up from the animal,
the handles of hoes
and getting to the end
of the furrow and marrow
sucked from the bones to
get all the good
should be recorded on gilt-edged
scrolls
but won�t though they said
it
let my record show.
Michael
Chitwood