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By Craig Werth Submitted by iammyself Date: 2007 Aug 11 Comment on this Work [[2007.08.11.22.21.668]] |
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Winter last was strangely cold Something snapped, I was suddenly old Got so hard to climb the stairs To go to bed way up there I made the chair my nightly home. Ate up fast my wood supply In early fall it was piled high But when the north wind came on through There was just a stick or two And I ran out under clouded skies. Sometimes luck does fall my way The old truck started yet another day Took it slowly down the road To acquire another load While Hubble Field went brown to gray. The hollowed road does weave and wind Been down it so long I could drive it blind Still half a cord at Abbott's farm One more load would do no harm And where he's gone he'll never mind. Work goes slow when you live alone Took quite some time to get back home Too dark to build a stack I pulled three logs from the back Inside to warm these weary bones. I dropped a piece of sycamore Bark side up on the living room floor Within a heart were carved the lines Of your name next to mine Something I'd seen just once before. It was the only part of you Within the only heart for me On that old tree got left behind. Ice wind tapped the window pane My breath was short, my back was strained I picked the log up off the floor Unlatched the woodstove door Now I won't see that heart again. It was the only part of you Within the only heart for me On that old tree got left behind. It was the only part of you Within the only heart for me On that old tree got left behind. |