Came From The Land Poem On Thrifted Print

Poem In Pen On Thrifted Print Mixed Media Came From The Land by Morgan Evans Custom Piece Comes with poem on separate piece of paper as well Measures 9" x 11" 2024 Came From The Land By Morgan Evans Scraping up what defines an actual artist The dried paint on the corner of the table The stories that grew up like tall weeds from old men on the porch The music The spoons The sounds that drew the neighbors in The agriculture that planted the notion Of The beauty of a farmhand The beauty of the field These old men that told stories That got passed down to other old men’s stories That got passed down to the children The folklore of creatures that prowled our backyards And poked at our curiosities with sticks A century of books, little simple enrichments that Came from the land The time The sky It’s buried under the rocks of our youth Our pain We are all artists, planted by hands On the side of the hill Where puppets dance on our heads and laugher Ferments in the trees and seeps out In the hands of a switch-carrier That falls to their knees in blood And begs for a full restart of events In the eyes of all who saw What it could have been And what it has created