Friday, March 5, 2021

Building a Fence and Smoking Cigarettes - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

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Building a Fence and Smoking Cigarettes

 

I passed two men who were building a fence

Cigarettes on their lips, work-stained old hats

Spirit level, carpenter square, calculations

The morning frost hard-worked into honest sweat

 

I passed two men who were building a fence

Its posts and rails strong-muscled into place

And hammered against the autumn hurricanes

With nails of steel, extruded steel, bright steel

 

I passed two men who were building a fence

With hands and tools and strength and uncommon sense

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