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| Herbert George Purington September 22, 1924 - March 28, 2016 |
The grandfather's whistle
in the antique apple tree
last year's oriole
Stonewall builder -
on the backs of his muscled hands
thick veins meander
Mending fences -
long chat with the neighbor
whose cows are in our corn
Family Farm
On his birthday
the white-haired man who is my father
passes around
a wedge of tree trunk –
wide growth rings, narrow ones
On his way
to somewhere far
the man with white hair
brakes for a turtle on its way
to somewhere near
Faces I Might Wear
