Sojourn

turning the lights to a shivering down
the heat of growing cotton
telling of the trials of farming in maximum exposure
laughing at the details of his current novel
so voluptuous...

she used to teach you know, college level too
barely finished high school and she ended up teaching, funny thing that
wondering at the task of home spinning
the harvesting is such a trial
not fit for man or beast the suffering is that great

one hand over the other crossing and resting at the same time
from a position of power to where power rests
the symptoms captured in his mother's memory
she was as strong as any man on the farm
she would eat as much, and work just as hard