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DocuSign Envelope ID:3E2A8197-2735-44CA-8810-5AD399233576 <br /> Pam Baggett <br /> 8800 Wilkerson Road <br /> Cedar Grove NC 27231 <br /> 919-732-9403 <br /> nightair@mindspring.com <br /> Photograph: Burlap#2 <br /> The ripped threads are only burlap <br /> and nothing else, green and bronze strands <br /> that glow in the peach light of an October dawn. <br /> They don't mean anything by their frailty, <br /> didn't ask to be teased out of the larger scene <br /> of two wooden tobacco wagons with burlap sides, <br /> hitched to a tractor and driven on bald tires <br /> to the edge of the neighbor's waiting field. <br /> Yet, in this light, all is art, camera fodder. <br /> This early, nothing about the day has frayed, <br /> though there exists always the possibility. <br /> The cries of stray birds, the only sounds <br /> on this cold morning. Later, a phone ringing, <br /> someone you love who tells you someone else <br /> you love rose at dawn like you, tried to stand <br /> but collapsed, dragging the night's warm blankets, <br /> faded with years, to the floor. But you aren't yet <br /> at that part of the story. You're still in the field, <br /> bent low to photograph the shredded burlap, <br /> the dazzle of light at its tasseled ends. <br /> Appeared in Kentucky Review on-line, January 2015 and Kentucky Review 2015(Future Cycle Press) <br />