Wednesday, April 10, 2013

30in30, Day 10: "Pickup"


Pickup

The road before us was a gray umbilicus
Connecting us to Mother Earth.
My lips were stained
The color of Hester's shame,
but it was only juice --
cherry, and strawberry fruit pie,
in the bed of a red truck
With one green door,
like Christmas in July.

And the sun spilled orange
Into our eyes,
and cornfields stretched out
On each side,
reverie after daydream
Painted in viridian and jade.

We licked sugar from our fingers
And let our hair blow wild as sin
In the Indiana wind.

T.A.B. 4-10-13

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