Down in the valley
Sunny day
Harvesting strawberries
Picking away
There was the storyteller
Old and grey
Picking away
With something to say
“I was born up there Theresa”
“I had everything, did anything.”
“The world laid out before me”
Grinning and gay
Humming away
Picking
“It wasn’t long though”
“I saw the mirage”
“It’s an oppressive system of economics”
“Without the words of Jesus”
Quick hand to mouth gesture
He chewed at a berry
Picking away
On a sunny day