Artist Eric Schumacher joined the tour of FOUND - Art of Community at Alexander County Library on Saturday, July 13, 2019. Eric's photograph inspired one of Art of Poetry's first contributing poets, Ann Chandonnet who now lives in Missouri, to share this poem from afar.
WET
CLOVER
by Ann
Chandonnet
after Water Bubbles by Eric Schumacher
My Mom
was born on a 13th in August.
She
always considered it her lucky day,
no
matter the month.
She
enjoyed sitting under the maples
shading
the front lawn
looking
for four-leaf clovers.
She had
little patience with her five kids
but
lots for clovers.
Farming
is a hard life,
which
did not agree with Mom
who
preferred sun bathing
in
skimpy halters
to
weeding corn,
canning
jars of staples
or
slinging bales of hay.
So
although she had bid
for
this farm life,
she
left, hovered
elsewhere;
looked
for four-leafed clovers elsewhere.
None of
us accompanied her.
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