Favorite Picture of Joe: Happy, kind and loving...

Blood, Sweat and Tears

Cool morning

Push mower

Shearing grass tops

Rhythmic motion

Mindless meditative work

Temperature rising

Air and body warming

Salty sweat

Beginning to flow

Clipper trimming

Stray branches

Inch-long thorns

Scratch and puncture

Unprotected arms

Blood mixing with sweat

Rake lifting 

Leaves and twigs 

From green carpet

Scent of mown grass

Fatigue setting in

Rest In cool shade

Remembering

A young boy

And his dad

Planting  a garden

Work and play intertwined

Big boy

And little man

Sweating and dirty

Tired and happy

Mourning

Loss of a son 

Pondering

What it is like

To be

Eternally

Nineteen

Memories

Scratch and puncture

Unprotected heart

Tears blending

With other fluids

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