Apricity Press Issue #1 | Page 27

I Live In My Fields

Gerardo Pacheco

the reapers left

me for good

scythes hanging

from their shoulders

blades tucked

in their leather belts

tattered rags around

their calloused hands

old hats on top

of their white heads

oh, those bent, broken bodies

left me for good

no one works

my fields anymore

green & yellow grass

surround my aching bones

too much grass

to cut

to many grains

to peck