Thursday, October 18, 2007

Farmer's Wife

How peaceable to be awake and listening
to the slip-slip
of fabric over his skin: undershirt, buttons, jangling belt.
Six a.m. he dresses in the dark, leaving the blankets warm.
His smile a porcelain mug - thick white full of early morning coffee.
Tonight we will dance beneath that bare light bulb.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Once I wrote a poem called "The Farmer's Wife." There were juniper berries and boats and dead pheasants. Your poem is much better.