farmers
Sun drops to cool the day’s refrain
of the shovel’s crunch and ping.
While border collies pant sweat,
wary of the orange feral cat they
and Billy spy in the field behind Ma,
smiling with her camera contraption,
Pa leans, resting on his spade,
tickled to see the sun contort his boy’s
silhouette across the canvas of his pants.
Brenda Warren 2013
The photo prompt came from Miz Quickly. Click on the 3 pic to visit her place. The picture is from an website called Shorpy, that boasts an extensive collection of historic photos.
undercaws 
What a perfect title for this photo. The poem just eases along like the border collie’s sweat.
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OOoooo…. great simile. Thank you Sara!
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I really enjoy how you found the detail of the ‘shadow’ in Pa’s pants. A well told tale.
Thanks for your visit.
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Love this. It sounds as natural and alive as the picture looks.
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Both poem and picture are enough to charm the pants of anyone! (I mean no vulgarity here, merely idiom)
love,
ViV
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Just wrote a poem about a tangerine cat for my writing group and yes, I agree, it is there, it would have to be. Cats manage the rodent population and that is a must. Like the poem and agree with Marianne, it is folksy and enhances the picture by being so.
Elizabeth
http://soulsmusic.wordpress.com/
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Great use of language in this, Brenda. And that is perfect.
Pamela
btw, I see most of us used the same photo 🙂
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Thank you, Pamela. I noticed that about the pics, too. I’m liking April so far, because this daily connection is nice, eh?! Hopefully I’ll still feel like this in a week or so. ha!
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Kudos to you for managing to write this at the end of your long day! Love “camera contraption!” Wonderful, folksy response to the prompt.
Please do print a copy of my poem to use however you see fit! I am honored!
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Thank you Marianne. I love “folksy.” Thanks also for allowing me to use your work. It’s a perfect companion to Karen Hesse’s “Out of the Dust,” a novel set in the dust bowl days, written in verse.
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ah, orange!!
I just adore your title, and your offstage characters…
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Thanks, Angie. The orange cat is there, I know it.
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