Walking the three tiers in first light, out
here so my two-year-old son won’t wake the house,
I watch him pull and strip ragweed, chicory, yarrow,
so many other weeds and wildflowers
I don’t know the names for, him saying Big, and Mine,
and Joshua—words, words, words. Then
it is the moment, that split-second
when he takes my hand, gives it a tug,
and I feel his entire body-weight, his whole
heart-weight, pulling me toward
the gleaming flowers and weeds he loves.
That moment which is eternal and is gone in a second,
when he yanks me out of myself like some sleeper
from his dead-dream sleep into the blues and whites
and yellows I must bend down to see clearly, into
the faultless flesh of his soft hands, his new brown eyes,
the miracle of him, and of the earth itself,
where he lives among the glitterings, and takes me.
Fork in the Road
C'mon, you can take it.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Ridgewood Coffee Company (4/5)
on Yelp
May 08, 2012 04:12PM - La Silhouette (4/5) on Yelp
January 05, 2012 05:21AM - Mama's Fish House (5/5) on
Yelp
September 06, 2011 08:29PM - Louie's Charcoal Pit (1/5) on
Yelp
August 27, 2011 06:18PM - Uncle Bill's Lunch Wagon &
Catering (5/5) on Yelp
October 31, 2010 01:17PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Getting hungry just
reading this. Any video of
your matches
online?”
May 02, 2012 06:31AM - “This is pretty good for
Open Salon. You're new
here,
right?
For
non-Facebook
user…”
April 13, 2012 08:14AM - “the way of the world in
the 21st century. It's about
skill
sets, not jobs.
What…”
February 25, 2011 08:11AM - “Magnolia can even get
boys away from worm-digging?
She's a
wily one
indeed.”
February 14, 2011 02:22PM - “Huff Post? I hear a lot
of writers like it there, at
least
until the other
day.…”
February 10, 2011 11:15AM
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