Field Hands
for Vanessa Linden

unscrew, undo
anything to help you with
to help you do, to help you lift
today

anything to help you close or open
zip up or unzip, I’m available

my fingers to add to/to add with yours
your toes and mine too to add together

what is possible, doubled by friendship
what it crochets, sews, knits

able to pick twice as many bails of cotton
bind twice as much hay


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2009
7:35 p.m. 11.07.09