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The Season for It

       

 

Early in the morning the calves were pulled 

from the dark, steaming sides of their mothers 

and now the pollen-hazed air is filled with 

bellows reverberating off the tree 

line like church bells heard for miles, a call 

looking desperately for a response.

 

When you plant your seeds take your gloves off, push

each little shelled instruction one by one 

into the freshly turned soil. Watch the ants 

move the small white pearls of their eggs, let them run 

lightly across the exposed skin of your wrist.

We’ll grow, somehow, if it rains in time.  

 

 

Sharon Denmark is an artist and writer from the southern part of Virginia. Her written work has recently appeared in Watershed Review, Shō Poetry Journal and Saranac Review. Her visual work can be seen at www.460arts.com and has recently appeared as cover art for 3Elements Review

 

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