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Another gladelarking

Posted by Wes Houp on October 16, 2020 0 Comments
Tobacco field.

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By Wesley Houp

Whippoorwill glade
margins jeweled
with late summer
gumweed.
Rose pink hanging on.
A gold finch burns
up in the atmosphere.
At the far end
a single branch
of persimmon waves.

My father waved
like that
across the tobacco field,
no great effort,
just an arm raised
momentarily
to say let’s go home.

Something similar
is about to happen
in the next universe,
and I want to be there.

Wes Houp

Wes Houp is a native of High Bridge, Kentucky. He currently lives in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where he is a maintenance technician at Cedars of Lebanon State Park. You can stream his first album, "Person Place or String," on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4LECfp0FNh4M97cu1Vesww

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