Black Locust, 2016 20″ x 32″ / 25″ x 37″
A Digression: Black Locust
Heavy in the hand, hard on the saw’s edge,
“frequently used for fence posts,”
Heft it, and your grasp finds a grip
Like a tool’s, checked and ridged by someone
Else’s use, who left these thumbprints
When he tossed it on the worktable.
-Jordan Smith