Honey Quartz
Did you grow up in a rural area?
The Meadow
by C.S. Scotkin
The meadow was alive
with grasses and brambles
field mice and rabbits
surrounded by birches and tall pines,
held together by stone walls
covered with moss
and hid little garter snakes
from inquisitive cats and children.
Spring wildflowers made crowns
for mother as daughters brought
baskets filled, mindless of golden pollen
coating noses and tables.
Crab apple blossoms blew on wind,
floated in honey sun,
Chipmunks brazenly scolded hawks
with yens for small hairy repasts.
Find pieces of quartz sticking
out of the ground, wash the clearest one,
diamond for a day.
“Don’t leave the meadow,”
Mother would shout.
We never did.
I do not know who thumbed down my answers, please do not do it again.
With gardens to weed, food to can
all our hungry mouths to be fed
With Weekends of fun for the others
as I stayed home baking bread…
Running as fast as my legs would go
over acres and acres of pasteur
Jumping from barn lofts, and swinging on ropes
playing with green snakes and childish hopes..
I remember it well … some sadly ….. some swell.
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February 5, 2012 1:54 pm
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