NAPOWRIMO 2016 DAY 29

Write a poem based on things you remember.


PAPA'S FARM


I remember Papa on the farm feeding grain to baby chicks
In their wire-mesh coops. Churning cow's milk into butter
From a giant silver bucket . Plucking huge blackberries off
A prickly vine in a ditch by the road side. Butchering pigs in the pen
And hanging the sausage in the smokehouse.

I remember Papa sitting on the back porch on a cool summer evening
After supper drinking Jim Beam bourbon from a paper cup and smoking
A hand made Cuban cigar.

I remember Papa as a hardworking man on the  farm.