Spoke

One pointed * food grasp * apoproximate
meals to be provided -> forthwith
Would you meanwhile tend to the pins ?
that are holding the spokes of the wheel
on the wagon holding the family

yes and could you protect the jar ? which
holds the rendered fat, from the animals
tended on a farm we left pushed
down this road, by God’s fierce gaurdians
gathering and bonding us together

Rolling… under cover of cloth & wood & steel
Rolling… the wheels which fix with
a pin to the spoke

cotton kerchief for sweat
cotton shawl for modesty

hands that will never forget
how to listen to wheels spoke

lips that remember
how to speak truths unspoken

they took our farm
our spirits love unbroken