table grain worn to soft smooth flannel under many hands bleached, bleached to opaque memories of tree
stories held within each cell birds at nest leaves in flight each year slow deaths new lifes
now repository of tableware keeper of daily cares slab of timber dressed and washed bleached, bleached still somewhere within the memories stir of breeze and rain the touch of feather and fur
tea ring stained, and portwine blurred babies teeth marks gnawed into wood...
taken from place to place granfa's table, time for grace grace and memory clear the table time for tea
do I remember these things clearly or is this just fantasy