Yes I was ill

But You’re late

I know  

I was Depressed

You’re FIRED sign here

Thank you

I am feeling better already.

Mom needed help raising 10 children

You took us on jobs where

Men brought water up from the earth

They laughed and cussed at

Each other in the Texas heat

Lumbering tools bent deep

Sweaty axial grease men

Who shaped pipe, rope,

Wrenches and steel

Into surgeon’s wands

Coaxing the nectar upward

Men who long new

The value of Aqua Dulce

Before it was bottled up

Back when it and childrem flowed free

Men who knew how to find the real liquid gold

They knew they had to protect it

You gave me all you had

A livelihood of knowledge

Now I drink your memory Dad

Like a Sailor drinks his beer

Summertime, playing marbles with your little brother

Lagging crystals, bowlees, and cat’s-eye’s in the dirt

Hearing the barking of your saxophone

To the beat of square, circle, triangle, and star shaped notes

Vibrating through your window screen

Raked through each tinny opening  freely

Squawking bluesy rhythms escaped

Unlike your image hidden  in your dark underworld.

Us outside free in the sunlight with your music

Never saw your face, wondered, where you loosing your marbles like me?

I know now you had found them in that darkness.

Exhaling  into the Earth

Centering her skin

Initiating a opening

Spirit penetrates her fertile core.

Life pulls in all directions

Generating a globular shape

Death beckons the fruit to its funeral pyre.

Smoke, steam, and fumes billow

Dancing oxygen starved  onlookers

Timing their alchemic attack.

Clawing into hot coals and ash

Revealing  matured sustenance

Results of the sacred dance.

Fiery hot petals pealed open

Revealing rows of golden beauty of the gods.

Gingerly salting, biting membranes

Savoring, swallowing cells ruptured

Love’s released  essence.

Potter devours his a-maze-ing meal.

I hear you hurt ,

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