Cultivation
By Saunie Krewson
The slash and the burn found us
words harvested
broken-backed by a lifetime
of cultivating fields
dealt fallow by neglect or exhaustion
the joker always wild
and resurrected.
Echo of sighs
from enumerable lips
that could have been mine
hints painted across darkened skies
hand-cut letters
smithed in an inferno
of tea readings
not denying
A maze of hints
led us to conspire
these rutted furrows
cut deep into our earth and brow
a land tended by the absence of herdsmen
This has become our home
About the Author
Saunie Krewson's poetry has garnered popular and critical acclaim from angelic friends and several overly critical cats. Haunted by her ancestry of authors from the 19th century, writing has always been understood as a inherited affliction as well as a frequently broken oracle of the divine.
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