Black Locust

Image: Black Locust branch drawing

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

 

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