Jake's Flea Market

after i’d returned from elsinore
resumed my education   learned
how to write a sermon   how to preach

on one two day ride away from wittenberg
on a horse old and lame and plodding   taken
from the university’s stable to minister
to a peasant village near zwickau 

from a path grooved through grass   vertical
grain headed in the air and grass   chopped
horizontal to the september 
soil of a saturday before a sunday i saw
deer and cattle and a peasant   family watch me