Thursday Night - Poetry Assignment Attempt #2

Aberdeen

As so many days begin:
wake up.


Boots make fresh dew tracks through the grass and earth.
Smell wet chickens.

Collect eggs. Milk the cow.
Make omelet. Eat cornflakes.

Start the Gravely.     
Double pin the hitch.

Fill the chainsaw.
Fill the trailer.
Fill the wood bin.
Fill the stove.

Cook grilled cheese.
Buddy Holly’s “Dearest” plays.
Two whitetail does walk through the pumpkins.

Work at the crop till a whippoorwill call lilts through the crickets while you pee.
Sigh and look at the tree line.
Leap over a ditch.


As so many days end:
go to sleep.