Tuesday, December 21, 2004
Rundown
The farmer's wife
sits alone with
woodstove and cat
the only warmth
voices keep her
company telling
her favorite stories
over and over
pictures, many misty
from tears or faulty memory
play movies in her mind-
almost eighty year's worth
outside, the barn
and building go to
pieces, the hay baler
rusts away in the field
the pasture seeds
to popular
and pine, the only
crop are goldenrods
the barn a maze
of spider's webs
across the walkways
not trod nor will be.
Henry Burt Stevens
6400 Taylor Rd Lot
108 Punta Gorda FL 33950
sits alone with
woodstove and cat
the only warmth
voices keep her
company telling
her favorite stories
over and over
pictures, many misty
from tears or faulty memory
play movies in her mind-
almost eighty year's worth
outside, the barn
and building go to
pieces, the hay baler
rusts away in the field
the pasture seeds
to popular
and pine, the only
crop are goldenrods
the barn a maze
of spider's webs
across the walkways
not trod nor will be.
Henry Burt Stevens
6400 Taylor Rd Lot
108 Punta Gorda FL 33950
