Monday, April 13, 2020

YOKEL ( 27 ) ~









G O ~ A L O N G
Y O K E L


Against the charitable gesture

there is no defence

SAMUEL BECKETT







Milking







Morning sunlight offers

Long shadows, a place of coolness



Hand size grape leaves cling to fence rails

A drop of warm light on the tips



Birds in the woods soon fly into the pasture

Sing and disappear all day



The sun lifts off the metal silo roof

Shatters into the pond



Between the barn and house

An aisle of light


                                                                    for Bill & Mary







Pals






I bought old

Tools from a

Friend since

We used the tools

Together on jobs

For years and

With him gone

I plan to work

Like we always

Have together






The Moral





You know an era

is over with the

morning you

see the local

outlaw junkyard

flatbed wrecker



with its owner’s

company name

barely scratched

onto the side doors



going by aboard

a real-deal junk-

yard flatbed hauler

on its way to town

to be sold as scrap




______________
Bob Arnold
Yokel
Longhouse
2011