Planting the Seeds

Someone planted the seeds.

Before that, plowed the field to plant the seeds

Before that, bought the tractor, to plow the field, to plant the seeds,

Before that, acquired the land, bought the tractor, to plow the field, to plant the seeds

Before that, studied farming, acquired the land, bought the tractor, to plow the field, to plant the seeds

~ ~ ~

Somewhere the wind is blowing on a field made ready for the planting of oats

As she eats a bowl of oatmeal, drizzled with honey

That came from a box

Shipped from a factory

Processed by a mill

And before that someone planted the seeds.

~ ~ ~

She eats as she browses the web

Without thought or gratitude

For the planting of the seeds

That she is me.

© Glenda Kotchish

July 1, 2019 

Moving

Find a home

Pay the money

Sign the paperwork

Sort everything

Pack the boxes

Connect the utilities

Call the movers

Supervise everything

Clean the old place

Turn in the keys

Adios

Unpack

Hello

Watch

She watches

first the sunlight

across his face

while he sleeps.

 

He stirs

and finally moves

as the bright rays

drive him from his resting place.

 

Time

minutes

perhaps a hour

the light shifts

to another

corner.

 

Until

finally

midmorning

only shadows rest

upon the walls.

 

Time to go

to work now.

She thinks,

someday

she’ll only

have the watching

to do

(C) Glenda Kotchish

July 3, 2018