There comes a time
in autumn
when reapers glean
the crops
from fields tilled
for harvest.
____dodging startling fall
rains;
____collecting cotton,
peanuts, onions, potatoes,
apples that survived
the spring's last
____eradicating frost.
Learning to pick
chile pods.
____Squatting to shit
in fields
____disdained by
some who
rinse guilt
and contagion
from wax apples
and sprayed
_yellow squash.
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