Future's face

Greetings,

She trimmed the end of old wood with her blade.
She is pounding
Metal on metal

She centered
the ironed steel metal hoe edge,
placed an awl into the wood -
splintering it
down
wedging it
striking it
with labor's hard
farm life determination

she hammered the hoe blade down,
caressing wood - a home, a shelter, grains
feeling steel inside fractured forgiving trees,
adjusting - pounding -
eyeing the edge, her work
done.

Across the street students shovel in the food.

Peace.