Communion
Posted on 12 December 2009
It’s not a big thing
when the BMW pulls over
silver blue and German grace
and the Guatemalan gardener adjusts his hip
the nearby ridge
with his leaf blower and rake
noting the pure white man inside
with his acceptable rock music
choking
weeping
hands shivering over the eyes
weeping till the cows come home
weeping for whatever nameless loss
he’s found
as Guatemala
back and forth with his machine
sweeps the rattling leaves
along a green back of Nichols Canyon
like a priest with incense.
2 responses to Communion
“like a priest with incense…” good imagery.
wow, lots of leisure time on your hands. Even time to write poems about exploited workers. get a leaf blower and start helping make solutions not just problems. observers are useless. workers are whom we should respect not lazy consumerists. Ok, another rant as a response to yours, would you trade your camera for that leaf blower to make things equal in this world?