tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614572626426371480.post5609479701633444391..comments2023-10-16T01:51:29.023-07:00Comments on Chicory Hill Farm Contemplations: Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07693080379474793796noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614572626426371480.post-57699726721103744482013-06-04T17:10:25.082-07:002013-06-04T17:10:25.082-07:00oh kathleen, where do you find these perfect poems...oh kathleen, where do you find these perfect poems? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07693080379474793796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614572626426371480.post-6308048561238537672013-06-04T14:49:23.264-07:002013-06-04T14:49:23.264-07:00That Evening
Ken Hada
that evening
after the...That Evening<br />Ken Hada<br /> <br />that evening<br /><br /> after the service<br /> after the casket<br /><br />was lowered into red dirt<br />dirt which he had plowed<br />and planted<br /><br /> I sat with her<br /> in the house<br /><br />a house that would never be<br />the same, the house of grandkids<br />and trophies from prize quilts<br />and blue-ribbon jams from<br />county fairs<br /><br /> and she spoke some<br /> and I spoke some<br /><br />I was not yet eighteen<br />He was sixty five<br /><br /> so my thoughts <br /> too few memories<br /><br />the shotgun he bought for me<br />at auction, catching a big bass<br />on his cane pole, sitting on his lap<br />at sunrise, hearing growls about<br />harvest and calves, hay, tractors<br />and fences<br /><br /> now it would all change<br /> we both knew that<br /><br />as we sat holding our differing<br />grief, it would all change<br /><br /> some for the better<br /> but not all<br /><br />sundown and death – too obvious<br />to construct – that first night<br />was hard, but she was hard too<br /><br /> and she teaches me<br /> to live on<br /><br />for thirty more years (and counting)<br />that evening still alive in me –<br />a lesson in grief<br /><br /> believe it, bear it<br /> bury it <br /> <br />from Spare Parts. © Mongrel Empire Press, 2010.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02210267176329666619noreply@blogger.com