Bracero labor
Pescadero
This time
Pumpkins thrive
Pumpkin-patch Holloween-oooo
Humble home
Catholic church
Genuflect-oh
Spanish spoken
Pesky peso
Me comprehend, no
Ode to a Small City
(Stockton, California)
The town just down the road
Many languages denote
Luckily just a few unimagined
For the prominent ribbon:
Is proud they're American
The emotions sparkle
In the street and wax on boulevard
This pride hard won and fragile
It suits them as a people
They pulled it from the edge!
Cleaved to a weedy pathway
Detached and striated
Display little regard
An All American City
Granite Cradle
Granite cradle nestled in the rock
From here I see three dead pines,
I hear the creek, Sawmill Creek
I feel the granite below me
The tall spired outcroppings quite high above
Two healthy cedars, a Douglas Fir
and ponderosa pine and a tit mouse
It splashes to the meadow below
A high flying jet bound, who knows?
and the warble of the lady tit mouse's mate
and the hot sun above- a black ant
Scurries across my belly bare expose
and a very, very blue sky
From here I see...
Morning Hand
As light hit the field
The pick up truck's
Door flew open
And the field hand
Bent and squated
O'r the water valve
So the second grow
Can suckle moisture
In a summer's mow
Campgrounds
(California)
I've camped often and with many
With hunters and rifles cold
School groups and church gatherings
With families seeming sweet with daddy teaching
Different sorts
With youthful scouts and kaki clad leaders
Serious about the forest life
Like Romans about their road
Feeling lost and alone
With wives and lovers who found
The woods sexual, primal and earthy
with exalted purpose and ritual meaning
We studied and prayed to our gods
His kids the ropes and what living is all about
And now, often alone
Still
Peering in the fire
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