Jake's Flea Market

it never comes out the way it went in


two days to the south

two days to the south
among the crops in the season of the sickle
there are children in the age of sprouting

their parents
mature into the flowering of their summers

their grandmother
the white threads of her hair drift back

the stitched hem of her coif
wraps a pear frozen browned bruise splotched
wrinkled the linen frames her face


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