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Rare Earth
By hutmaster
27 July 2007
Cane straight at eighty.
Years yet to dig
your careful bean rows.
To plant seed
in rich, dark earth,
and stand spade-sharp at twilight
planning danders with cronies
to the well on Betsy's Road.

Times change.
No daily shave,
the dog unwalked.
Garden harvests came and went,
time spent staring
at comfortless coals
complaining of a chill
in bones too old to till.
Unwilling.

Weeds shouldered through
the last bean rows
of your rare earth.

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Written by Phil (6959 comments posted) 27th July 2007
And who knows how many seasons any of us have left? 
 
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