Thresh

Red rust skin fresh
Against the threshing floor
As we grind grains
From our sheaves of wheat.
August oven sun bakes
Bread from our blood and dust:
We tanned, brown loaves
Are broken by our children.

This poem © Gabriel Gadfly. Published Apr 9, 2009
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