Gray Tuesday
Two days after Christmas, one day after
the legal holiday of Christmas
when more people shopped, returned
gifts, cashed gift cards than bought
gifts black Friday before.
There was no run on sneakers like last week
when crowds got out of hand. Occupy Macys
was more important than occupy Wall Street.
What can I do to keep occupied?
Maybe I’ll read history or plane
another plank for my coffin,
which will be plain, not pine.
I opt for poplar. Not as popular
as oak or cherry, but easy to work,
though maybe not so easy to store.
—Donnell Hunter
27 December 2011
donny, I love the infinite possibilities human/divine love brings us. Space and time to catch up on what we forgot and what will in our recollection become something even more. And speaking of space, who would have the guts in this age of mortician consumerism take on Brigham's favorite tree, the never popular poplar for a temporary resting place. Honey, flowing from the brook./Henboker
ReplyDeletePoplar is a variety of cottonwood of which I am surrounded, but I will buy my lumber kiln-dried and planked and planed because I don't have the equipment or time to do it myself.
ReplyDeleteI had to undo and redo my inlaid owl yesterday because I sanded through it. Then I should have my first plank ready to glue in the top.
donny