Blue-eyed magician
Suspendered supra linear
Between
CBC radio streaming
Whaelghinbran acres teeming
speaking magical languages of
Earth-Sky-Love
Between
Fresh ground spices
slices of organic turnip beef
Between 8pm and midnight
Waiting to eat.
Between
Fat fingers gleaming
over oiled cast pans
baby buttered beet greens
sweet breads and hams
Between
Roasted root veggies
melting on tongues
serving the masses
one by one
Between
Scallops and lobsters
bartered for kale
Savoy cabbage roses
preening for sale
Between
Lambs’ Quarters’ first green
feast in Spring
froze fingered brussel sprouts
pot whistling
Between
The road less traveled
Blake and Ferlinghetti
Miles Davis, MJQ
Peterson and Allende
Between
lists and meeting
Bear-baring
A valley free of poisons…
green quilt
Of decades in rotation
Once ripe with
Hogs and ducks, cows and a horse
Dogs and cats and chickens…
and of course
deer, coons and crows…teasing
Testing any illusions of ownership…
Between
Dusky dawn and twilight
Market orders and stop lights
Each tree known
Each phrase honed
Proud Stag…standing tall
Between
Harvest Banquets and Hospital visits
Spruce Sentinels bow low
To bearded elder in winter whites
Beside
MamaSue kitchen dancing
Taste test play ranting
Seamless soulful love
***Thank you Clark for you
for teaching and testing me
for loving me, for loving my mom
and for caring for this land so long and well.
I will miss you
I love you
Safe Journey
Until we meet again.
