June 21, 2009

#75 a ride on the john deere

the world shrinks
slips away

my young ankles
bounce
along the trail
in the wake of my ancestral manhood
driven now by my father

the exhaust clears its throat
as i sit on the frankensteined rear platform

then my feet
pseudo-run
backwards
imagining their strength to push the tractor
and my father
in the driver seat

the world shrinks
slips away
into the distance
behind my father
ahead of me

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