Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Elegy to Work Tools








 

The workshop’s pegboard matrix a dry pocked face

Holding each work tool carefully to its assigned place.

The hammer’s steel head set at a 45-degree slant;

No longer concerned about a loose board or a wayward nail.

 

The family of screwdrivers in parade upon a wire base

Each waiting father’s old hands to reach out in hail!

Will it be a Philip or a straight end’s turn

To fasten down a screw’s lose rant?

 

The jigsaw’s teeth are ready - sharpened and clean of all debris

however, today there will be no wood or metal cuts to recant.

For dear Father’s work was done precisely and not misbegotten.

The workshop clock’s hands stilled too; though his time will never be forgotten.








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