Rabbit and Rose
There's been a chipping off,
carving, and claiming from
waterways to inter deltas-
Second coming settlers
exploring bodies from fleshy
river banks to shaded pines.
You've got a mouthful of gimme, a handful of much oblige
Dwindling sands counted and stored
marked like inventory, numbered,
enrolled, verified, certified, organic-
Cataloged carefully beside red clay
and white clay samples-
Both entities whose bodies forget the
flexibility of coil pottery-
under browned silt worked hands
You've got a mouthful of gimme, a handful of much oblige
If the last bit of my home
sits caked down - a deep red line
under crevices of my toenails-
You would come sightseeing
only to dig it out-
Sweeping the dirt away.
You've got a mouthful of gimme, a handful of much oblige