Thursday, August 4, 2011

tribute # 294 - spring lamb (1979)

bought, mine, conditionally —
he'd be sold for meat come fall.
fingers in wool, eyes in eyes.

training double-minded
farming-mind, giving affection
because that is what the heart
must do. pretending it away because
that is what the heart should do.

3 comments:

Lodo Grdzak said...

Hard heart! But I guess that's what life teaches.

Pearl said...

it's one option it teaches.

Lodo Grdzak said...

Got ya!