Black Ford Morning

FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
edited January 2004 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
Spray your fields with something strong.
Set ditches. Drain your land.
Make a rock wall right along
your farmhouse, as you've planned.
Clean your gutter free of moss.
Whitewash those walls outside.
Bless the house you've built, to face
Out any ocean tide.

Lead your cattle to your lake.
Let them drink their fill.
Lead them back to graze and make
a green field of your soil.
Neighbours might soon pass and say
"God spare you and your field.
It's in God's name! Keep tides at bay!
You'll make those oceans yield!"

Buy a grave plot by the bay,
Behind a castle's stone.
Rest your head back from the sea,
far from its scratching moan.
So, more land's taken, year by year?
So what? That castle wall!
Who says, "A straying wind will tear
the waters on us all?"!!

* * * * *

There's prophecies
locked in the parish hall.

They say the sea
will rise and take us all.
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Comments

  • setaside2setaside2 Posts: 1,084
    You know, the state of Florida sinks 11/4" every year due to its limestone foundation.

    It's literally drowning itself slowly.

    The midwestern fault running through the east-midwestern section of the United States is 150 years overdue for its usual outburst of tectonic movement. Scientists predict that, at its extreme, the earthquake would cause Denver to become oceanfront property and a most important seaport.

    We are not meant for the sea.
    I'm stepping in front of the gushing hydrant in a hurricane. I'd like to see the traction I keep.
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I'm pleased that poem related. Thanks, seta.
  • setaside2setaside2 Posts: 1,084
    it brings certain thoughts to mind... like the destruction of the middle usa... nice one fins.

    LOL :D
    I'm stepping in front of the gushing hydrant in a hurricane. I'd like to see the traction I keep.
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    The story is very specific to the area I was writing about, but I'm pleased that by leaving out local names it connects to other peoples' experiences and localities.
  • YellowYellow Posts: 699
    it's a lovely piece, fins... sent me looking for this one i wrote some year and a half ago....

    staring into the little square of your face
    i am lost
    and am wondering
    what your eyes sought
    in that moment
    that instant
    by which time did fly

    my soft terry held you
    and covered your mane
    bears, blue and smiling
    snuck peaks from behind you
    your softest places
    caught in my light

    yet still they don't know how
    they move me

    these things Will change
    and innocence pass
    over and through me
    while i do stand guard
    and when my work is finished
    then i will be weary
    and ready to move
    to Saint Thomas

    i'll let the sun paint me
    and i'll paint a bicycle
    and tell stories to tourists
    i know are not true

    and i will die happy
    as long as you promise
    to carry my ashes
    back over the island
    and bring them to rest
    in the deep ocean blue
    It's all yellow.


  • YellowYellow Posts: 699
    in a black ford in morning
    lined up, a cold lore sung
    no bells for the dead
    no day more forlorn ring

    sing epitaphs love
    play feathered fret dove
    this song my more favorite
    rain come down, rain come

    black ford stretch thee too far
    eyes see black thee eyed mar
    aforementionedly
    opalescently
    aftersongishly
    barred

    not buried beneath
    root tree root earth
    a century's death
    in angelic rebirth

    but left fathered fret dove
    below the ground above
    sweet ray sweet to love son
    rain come down, rain come come
    It's all yellow.


  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    So many black ford mornings where the dead lay with their heads to the west.

    Thanks, Yellow.
  • YellowYellow Posts: 699
    you're welcome and good morning
    i was wondering when y'all'd get up :)
    It's all yellow.


  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I've been up eight hours!

    :D
  • YellowYellow Posts: 699
    and i, 4...

    :)
    It's all yellow.


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