Album Notes

I blow over my open hand. Chaff is gone. Mmmmm. Five minutes later I have wheat gum, dough. The sweet taste of grain as the dough separates from whatever else makes the wheat that makes for the chew...

Summer time. The pollywogs in the creek. The smell of chlorine and moldy towels. Sweet anise and monarch caterpillers. Irrigating lilacs and sunburned shoulders. Sweet alfalfa and clanging balers.

Summer at the prison farm. A thousand skinny white hens. A thousand eggs a day. Candle and sort, candle and sort. Blood spots and cracked shells splash against the wall and slide into the cat's pail. Happy cat with shiny coat. Little cat door. She comes and goes. Message from Castle. "Report immediately." "Sentence remitted in excess of time served." Go home!