The soil curates small slips of man
His life, his work, his resume
Some petit detritus of his life
A library of tales again retold.
No need to search with system code
Items are best secured by chance
With lucky use of spade and rake
Close searched where man did live and die
A rusty nail, a piece of tool
Both witnesses to man’s resolve
To raise a shelter for repose.
A fragment of a printed page,
Reveals a ken that there’s yet more.
Old cans and jars and rusty spoons,
Betoken victory over want,
And man’s resolve to live out life.
The grassy fields perforce* are doors,
Enclosing bits of lives past lived—
Far better than some* research “App,”
With cold results in digit code!
Leonard N. Shapiro, N.Y. 9/1/16
*(edits)
-p.
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