Let Nothing Lie Dormant
Posted: August 8, 2013 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: blogging, David Dominguez, family, freshly pressed, friends, happiness, health, hope, kindness, life, love, lululemon, musings, natural, nature, Omaha, passion, perspective, Poem, Poetry, Prose, running, trail running, yoga 13 Comments…
At the farmer’s market in Rosarito, Mexico,
a man touched my arm.
He sat on a stool at a wooden table,
and in the center,
a blue pitcher of water beaded under the sun.
Hunkered over his lap,
he worked with a gouge on a block of walnut,
and he blew at the dust,
and the dust swirled in the breeze.
Done stripping the sapwood vulnerable to rot,
the man held the heart of the wood,
a purple wood hard against
the chisel’s cutting edge.
He looked up from his work,
and his gray eyes told me I must listen.
“This wood must be strong
or the heart cracks before the real work is done.
See this?” he asked softly,
and he lifted a mallet carved
from a branch of apple, “Strong wood,” he said.
“It wanted to be more than a tree.”
He rubbed fresh walnut dust between his palms.
We drank glasses of ice water,
talked about life in general,
and he used the pitcher,
billowed and wet like the sail of a boat,
to cool his neck.
Later, through the soft meat of an avocado,
I felt the pit longing to be free.
CultFit 
Beautiful writing.
I was nosing around the poetry foundation website last weekend and stumbled upon some of David Dominguez’s writing, needless to say the dude is seriously talented and worth checking out!
Nice. Thanks for the tip!
Strange… I’ve been gorging on apricots lately. And I have a small jar full of their pits now. I’ve no idea why I’m keeping them. My son asked. And all I can say was: I’ll know the answer later.
Apricots, peaches, avocados … anything with a pit or seeds? We gather them up and plant them in the yard, some make their way into the sand box by mistake. 😉 So far, we have a little watermelon/pumpkin patch going in the backyard. 🙂
Oh no. I don’t have a green thumb, Cult. That’s why my son asked. He knows I like making projects. Probably geared towards that. For a vision board or something. But not planting! That made me laugh.
Ha! No green thumbs here either 🙂 You would be amazed what grows in the backyard after eating watermelon and depositing the seeds about all over the place. 😉
This is so beautiful!
Loved it!
I’m glad you liked it! Take care today and be sure to have a great weekend. 🙂
Very sweet story. I will have to check out more of his work.
The depth to his words and the way in which he writes is amazing!
It is. And he is a rare gem.