Wednesday 13 June 2018

Crushed


The sun trapezed over my knuckles
When I picked up warm wheat
By fistfuls
Put out to dry by my grandmother
After it was washed and scrubbed.

It would leave in me 
Heat, imprint, smell.

Now our packaged flour
Slips right through
The gaps between my fingers.

Those birthed by the earth 
Do not hold each other any more.
We maintain sanitized contact
Mediated by steel and plastic.


First published in Madness Muse Press, 11 Jun 2018.








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