Yes I followed the plough by David Michael Jackson Yes I followed the plough and have the feet for it too wide wide feet for soft ploughed earth. Someone had to follow the plough when we ploughed the tobacco, to uncover the plants. My youth. Spent hoeing or uncovering. I know that smell I know it, you hear, even though I sit in this well tempered house on these carefully displayed lands I was there I saw it pass away "You boys ain't hopin' me" he'd say and we'd slip away and we didn't know if we knew, would it be a better memory now would that I had known that it would have been all gone, and that smell of the soil, the occasional arrowhead, the cold water of the creek would be all swallowed up and disappear It was back there where those creeks come together, the field and Passenger creek with the spring water to drink that we, it was there that we cursed the work and wanted to go to town. |