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Concerning John
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for my Aunt after my Uncle passed away a few weeks ago...
Tobacco and striped overalls,
Silver buttons & boots.
The land stretches for miles
And what could you do, John
With the tall green tractor?
Laugh from your belly
With a scratchy laugh, go
Lean back like a burlap sack
Full of the harvest to be,
Survey the great stretch beyond
The swing sets and toy trucks
Rubbing a graying, spiny top
And laughing a scratchy laugh.
Work the farm until dusk
And talk softly to the sheep
Who baa and baa into the night
Until you are tired and hungry
And come home to Dorothy
In evenings of peace and comfort
Like Oklahoma at bedtime
Under that moon that raises
The crop you've sewn so dearly
In irrigation stripes whose fruits
Are like your silver buttons & boots.
And when I hear your laughing
As I could not in the last church,
Will I still come visit you
As the child fast running away
From the sheepdogs; crying
With drying smiles in your tale.
- V.A. Blevins